David Noriega Biography
David Noriega is an NBC News and MSNBC national correspondent based in Los Angeles. He formerly worked at Vice News, where he covered criminal justice, organized extremism and labor issues, as well as migration across North and South America, North Africa and Europe.
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David joined MSNBC and NBC news as a national correspondent based in Los Angeles in August 2023. He previously worked at Vice News where he covered criminal justice, organized extremism, labor issues, as well as migration across North and South America, North Africa and Europe. Some of the stories he covered included, asylum seekers at the U.S.-Mexico border, mass shootings in America, the fentanyl crisis, teachers’ strikes in Los Angeles and Denver,national elections in Brazil, and the demobilization of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia.
He as well co-hosted and co-director of Border to Border, a digital series which looked at the international borders on three continents. He is a former BuzzFeed News national reporter where he covered immigrants. He has also worked Huffpost as a writer and translator.
His reporting has won him Emmy nominations for his coverage of Central American migration, the Venezuelan political crisis and the assassination of environmentalists in Colombia. He has also won awards from The New York Press Club, The National Association of Hispanic Journalists and The French-American Foundation.
David Noriega Background
Noriega is of Hispanic ethnicity. He was brought up alongside his brother Javier and sister Rebecca.
David Noriega Family
David is the son of David Noriega RodrÃguez and Carmencita Costas. His father, David was a Puerto Rican lawyer, politician, and political analyst. He was popularly known as the “People’s Prosecutor” due to his role in pursuing government corruption. As a politician, he was first elected to the House of Representatives in 1984 and was re-elected for additional two terms. During the 1996 general elections he was the gubernatorial candidate of the PIP. After his political career, he returned to practice law as well as served as a political analyst in Puerto Rican radio and news programs. He died on May 4, 2013 of pancreatic cancer.