David Wenner

Background

About David Wenner

David Wenner is an award-winning journalist and accomplished writer who has published thousands of articles which have appeared in publications around the country. He routinely handles all aspects of stories and projects from idea to reporting to writing and editing to headline writing. He's an exceptional interviewer and researcher. He has deep knowledge of areas including politics, the health care system and government. He specializes in stories showing people as they interact with issues and institutions or face challenges and hardships. For example, he followed a patient through the process of receiving a heart transplant including witnessing the transplant, chronicled the final seven years of a man dying of ALS, and told many stories of people impacted by opioid addiction. A 2022 profile of a man in need of a kidney transplant prompted a reader to donate a kidney. He's good at explaining complicated subjects such as the Affordable Care Act, efforts to measure health care quality, and the use of medications to treat opioid addiction. He was the lead reporter for The Patriot-News/PennLive's coverage of the 2020 presidential election and the COVID-19 pandemic. His personal interests include reading, running and teaching himself guitar. He has won many journalism awards over the years, including: First-place national Investigative Reporters and Editors competition, 2017; second-place Keystone Press Award for news beat reporting (health care), 2015; second-place Keystone Press Award for special project (transgender people), 2015; first-place Keystone Press Award for business/consumer story, 2012; second-place Keystone Press Award for business/consumer story, 2011; second-place Keystone Press Award for news beat reporting (health care), 2010.