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Recent Stories by David Washburn:
 E-mail David Washburn at david.washburn@voiceofsandiego.org
David Washburn has been telling stories in one form or another for the better part of 20 years. Prior to joining voiceofsandiego.org, he spent eight years as an enterprise/investigative reporter for The San Diego Union-Tribune. David's work at the U-T included award-winning in-depth stories on financial elder abuse, lack of oversight of contractors in Iraq, San Diego's high rate of officer-involved shootings and mismanagement at the San Diego Red Cross. Before coming to San Diego, David worked as a reporter and editor for the Allentown (Pa) Morning Call and as a researcher for Dateline NBC. While at Dateline he worked on several stories with correspondent Chris Hansen before Hansen struck it big chasing after sexual predators.
David is a graduate of the University of Missouri School of Journalism, and is currently working on a master's of film and new media at San Diego State University. He has served as a speaker and panelist for Investigative Reporters and Editors and taught classes at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pa. and at Southwestern College. David and his wife Karen are the proud parents of Yesenia, Kaitlin and Anita-Joan. David's hobbies include obsessing about his health, snooping on his neighbors and preparing his children for the Ivy League college of their choice.
You can't mandate that kids buy books, uniforms or other supplies for a school activity -- even if it's an extracurricular.
Friday, November 20 -- 12:14 pm
College controversies, getting cash at your local high school and why Obama hearts preschool.
Friday, November 20 -- 8:14 am
What the city giveth, the Navy taketh away.
Friday, November 20 -- 6:16 am
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(Sept. 27, 2009) — UCSD cyber security expert says its time to stop treating today's online bad guys like 1990s-era basement hackers, and start treating them like the sophisticated criminal enterprises that they are. (Sept. 23, 2009) — The biotech industry was built on monumental risk taking, but companies are playing it very safe when it comes to social media. (Sept. 14, 2009) — The U.S. Patent Office is issuing patents at a historically slow rate, leaving local people and businesses waiting on average three and a half years -- twice as long as the government's benchmark -- to get their patents. (Sept. 3, 2009) — As financing becomes increasingly scarce, small companies that are majority-owned by venture firms are battling with even smaller start-ups over money from a small research business grant program. (Aug. 27, 2009) — A SPAWAR bribery case reveals holes in the federal government's oversight of its subcontractors. (Aug. 16, 2009) — You may not have known his face, but you probably knew his byline: David Hasemyer spent three decades investigating some of San Diego's biggest stories. (Aug. 9, 2009) — Sorrento Valley's BioSurplus has helped professionalize what used to be a somewhat underground economy of buying and selling laboratory equipment. (Aug. 5, 2009) — With the venture capital model broken by the economic collapse, wealthy (and adventurous) angel investors are carrying a heavier burden in the funding of start-ups. (July 15, 2009) — With generic forms of biologic drugs increasingly looking like an inevitable part of health care reform, San Diego's biotech industry is fighting to keep the competition at bay for as long as possible. (July 16, 2009) — Four decades ago, an astronaut dropped a case off on the moon. Today, a UCSD physicist uses it to challenge the world's most famous scientific theory. |
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