David Brancaccio is an American journalist. He was born in Maine.

As of January, 7, 2005 Brancaccio serves as host of the PBS newsmagazine NOW replacing Bill Moyers. Brancaccio was co-host for over a year prior to Moyers' retirement.

Brancaccio began his career in public broadcasting in 1973. Along the way he received a B.A. in African Studies and History from Wesleyan University in 1982 and a master's in journalism from Stanford University in 1988.

In 1989 he began contributing to the PRI program Marketplace and was soon the program's European editor. Brancaccio became Marketplace's host and senior editor in 1993. Under Brancaccio's direction the program received the Dupont-Columbia Award (1998) and the prestigious George Foster Peabody Award (2001). In 2003 Brancaccio left Marketplace to join Moyers on NOW.

On his last NOW broadcast, Bill Moyers had this to say about Mr. Brancaccio:

I asked David to join me over a year ago because I wanted my successor to have grown up, as it were, in public broadcasting, an independent journalist, believing our job is to sift through the untidy realities, weigh the competing claims, and offer to you our considered approximation of what's really going on.

Brancaccio has contributed to many other broadcast, electronic, and print media, including CNN, CNBC, The Wall Street Journal, Alternet and Psychology Today; and has written the book Squandering Aimlessly (Simon & Schuster, 2000; Touchstone, 2001), which documents the spending habits of a diverse cross-section of Americans. Brancaccio lives in Los Angeles with his wife and three children.

External links

• Now Official website (http://www.pbs.org/now/)
• NOW 2005 (http://www.pbs.org/now/NOW2005.html)
• Marketplace's farewell to David, featuring a timeline, slideshow, and audio clips (http://marketplace.publicradio.org/about/cast_crew/david_farewell.html)