David Mattingly
CNN Correspondent
From CNN's Web Site
David Mattingly is a producer and correspondent for CNN's new quarterly newsmagazine series, THE AMERICAN EDGE, the network's award-winning environment program, EARTH MATTERS and for a monthly series on TBS Superstation. Mattingly is responsible for all phases of story production and from conception and development to post production.
Since joining the program in 1992, Mattingly has traveled from Vietnam to South Africa, winning a number of national journalism awards. He won an Emmy award for his contribution to the CNN Presents program focusing on the Mississippi River floods. He has received a National Headliner Award, Genesis Award, a Worldfest Houston Award and has been recognized by the American Women in Radio and Television for his profile of an American doctor in the Amazon rainforests of Peru.
Mattingly's broadcast career began in 1981 covering human rights and racial issues in rural Alabama, working as a reporter at the CBS affiliate in Tuscaloosa. In 1982, he began a long tenure with the NBC affiliate in Birmingham, AL, where he worked as a political and environmental reporter, documentary producer and news anchor.
Mattingly's major achievements included pioneering environmental reporting in the deep south, producing documentaries on the dangers of lead poisoning, threats to important natural resources and the politics of hazardous waste disposal.
Two of Mattingly's documentaries, The Amazon Rainforest and The Brink of Extinction, have each won him regional Emmy Awards for best documentary.