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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The Grant Street site near West Ferry is a business incubator for new Americans and refugees, featuring restaurants and shops, as well as ways for them to earn a living and share their culture in Buffalo.
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While most every district in New York State has faced a school bus driver shortage, the crisis can be greater in the rural areas, where a smaller pool to draw from has made for some innovative recruitment, scheduling and hiring practices just to keep things rolling.
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In Washington Wednesday, the House Committee on Oversight and Reform held a hearing in the aftermath of recent gun violence, including the mass shooting in Buffalo May 14. Among those testifying were Buffalo Police Commissioner Joseph Gramaglia and Zeneta Everhart, whose son, Zaire Goodman, 21, was one of three people wounded at the Jefferson Avenue Tops supermarket.
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Among those testifying was former Buffalo Fire Commissioner Garnell Whitfield, whose mother Ruth Whitfield was one of the 10 mostly Black people killed May 14 at an East Side Buffalo Tops supermarket.
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After a two-year pandemic delay, NPR's "Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!" comes to Buffalo. Inside: Hear an extended interview with host Peter Sagal, and his newest Buffalo-based Tweets
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As part of a broad survey of over 130 BIPOC community leaders in Buffalo, we asked what they felt was the number one racial problem in Buffalo, and who has the responsibility to change it. This is a special 2-part report that also took an earlier snapshot of what racism looks like in WNY.
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For Part I of our broad survey of over 130 Black, Brown and Indigenous leaders in Buffalo, we asked how often they felt they were discriminated against and what that was like.
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Jessica Pegula, the daughter of Buffalo Bills owners Kim & Terry Pegula, celebrated her victory earlier this week at the Australia Open with a shoutout to Buffalo Bills mafia, as they head into an NFL Playoff game against Kansas City Sunday.
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In her first State of the State message, Gov. Kathy Hochul spoke broadly of wanting to boost the efforts to restore the Humboldt Park neighborhood in Buffalo by apparently embracing plans to cover the Kensington Expressway.
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A Buffalo police officer who was fired for trying to stop another officer from using a chokehold on a handcuffed suspect will get retroactive retirement benefits from as far back as 2010, under a new law signed by Gov. Kathy Hochul Wednesday.