David Nakamura is an American journalist who works as the White House reporter for ''

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''.

Biography

Nakamura is of

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and

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descent and raised in northern Virginia. Being of Japanese descent, his father was

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during

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and later served two tours during the

Vietnam War The Vietnam War (also known by other names) was a conflict in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975. It was the second of the Indochina Wars and was officially fought between North Vietnam a ...

. His parents were both high school teachers. He graduated with a B.A. in journalism from the

University of Missouri The University of Missouri (Mizzou, MU, or Missouri) is a public land-grant research university in Columbia, Missouri. It is Missouri's largest university and the flagship of the four-campus University of Missouri System. MU was founded in ...

. In 1992, he worked as a summer intern for ''

'' before accepting a full-time position as a sports reporter. In 1996, he moved to Japan to teach English for a year. He returned to the US where he worked on the local news team focusing on education and city government in Washington, D.C., Virginia, and Maryland. In 2005, he won the Selden Ring Award for investigative reporting for a 2004 story on lead contamination in tap water in D.C. In 2016, he received an honorable mention by the Merriman Smith Memorial Award for excellence in presidential news coverage under deadline. He is married to Kris Schenck.

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