Dave Debo
Senior Multimedia Reporter & HostDave Debo's journalism career runs the gamut from public radio to commercial radio, from digital projects to newspapers. With over 30 years of experience, he's produced national television news programs and has worked as both a daily and weekly print journalist and web editor.
An award-winning former president of the Greater Buffalo International Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists, he's been an assignment editor at two of Buffalo’s three TV stations, and has worked as a newspaper reporter for Buffalo Business First and The Ithaca Journal.
Radio is his first love, having started at WBEN as a reporting intern under former WBFO News Director Brian Meyer in the late 80s, before moving on to two stints at WEBR, the public-all news station that evolved into WNED-AM and merged into WBFO in 2012. He's worked in Buffalo for WBEN, and was the longest serving host of their acclaimed weekend politics news program "Hardline" for over 9 years.
During the 1990's he hosted WEBR's popular Weekend At Your Service program, and after that was a weekend edition host on WBFO. He's also worked n Niagara Falls at WJJL, and was news director at WTKO/WQNY in Ithaca NY.
In Washington DC on 9/11, he was the producer of First Business, a nationally syndicated morning business newscast seen on over 175 television stations. When the Iraq war broke out he was working as a producer and story coordinator in Fox News Channel's Washington DC bureau, and was simultaneously employed as a producer and newscaster at NPR's flagship station WAMU and as a web producer at WUSA-TV. He’s also been an early morning news producer at WGRZ TV
He lives in East Aurora , has dabbled in community theatre there and is an ordained wedding officiant.
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Officials are urging compliance with the driving bans that remain in Amherst, Buffalo, Cheektowaga, Clarence, Evans, Hamburg, and Lackawanna, as snow removal crews try to clear streets.
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Workers United has won an election for union representation at both the Elmwood Avenue and Hertel Avenue locations of the Lexington Food Co-op.
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A leading statewide advocate is calling for reform after a recent New York State Inspector General report found Black and Hispanic individuals are more likely to face disciplinary action than others incarcerated in New York state. And he says inmate frustration at Attica Correctional Facility is at an all-time high.
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The end to the heavy snowfall gives residents and municipalities a chance to begin digging out but travel bans remain in south Buffalo, Evans, Hamburg Lackawanna and Orchard Park. Heavy snow remains n South Buffalo and Buffalo schools have closed for Monday.
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Imagine dealing with a Buffalo snowstorm when you don’t know English well, and came from a tropical region where the temperature never dips below 64 degrees.
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Payton Gendron, the alleged gunman who has been charged with 25 state charges relating to the May 14 Tops Market massacre, is expected to plead guilty to all charges on Monday, according to attorneys that represent victims' families.
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The National Weather Service has issued a series of Lake Effect Snow Warnings calling for wide bands of Lake Effect snow to fall across Western New York, in some cases at the rate of 3 inches an hour through Saturday night. The New York State Thruway will be closed to commercial traffic only between The Pennsylvania state border and Rochester, beginning Thursday at 4 p.m.
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The Buffalo History Museum and the Erie County Public Library host a public meeting tonight to find out what the community wants as they begin to consider ways to preserve mementos and stories of the Tops shooting on May 14. HEAR More from "Buffalo What's Next?" inside.
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Several members of the cast of “Once On This Island” appear Wednesday on WBFO’s “Buffalo What’s Next?” program to discuss the themes of race, identity and diversity, in the groundbreaking local musical at Shea’s 710 Theater. Inside: Watch them sing. Hear them on "Buffalo, What's Next?" Wednesday at 10 a.m.
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Some attendees openly wept as the city of Buffalo became the first in the nation to have a war memorial specifically to honor Black veterans.