David Highfield Biography
David Highfield is an American transmission writer, anchor and journalist as of now functioning as a co-anchor of the KDKA’s morning broadcast “Your Day Pittsburgh” with Heather Abraham. He joined the KDKA, station in 1991 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
David Highfield Education
David learned at Ford City High School. Subsequent to moving on from secondary school he joined the Syracuse University where he graduated summa cum laude with a four year certification in Broadcast Journalism.
David Highfield Age and Birthday
David was brought up in Ford City, Pennsylvania, United States of America. In any case, data with respect to when he was conceived and commends his birthday isn’t yet to people in general. Likewise READ:/Erin McLaughlin
David Highfield Nationality | Ethnicity
David holds American ethnicity and citizenship by birth. He was brought up in Ford City, Pennsylvania. He is of the white ethnic gathering.
David Highfield Height
Highfield remains at a typical level of 5 feet 8 inches (1.73 m).
David Highfield Parents
David is the child of the late mother Judith Gail Highfield and his dad Homer Larry Highfield. His folks are long-term individuals from the Elderton Presbyterian Church. David is the lone offspring of his folks.
David Highfield Mother
Davis is the child of his late mother Judith “Judy” Gail Highfield who passed on March 31, 2017, at her home in Pennsylvania. His mom was brought into the world on March 22, 1934, to her folks Reuben and Ramona Heilman.
Judy learned at Elderton High School and later moved on from Indiana State Teacher’s College with a degree in rudimentary training. Subsequent to graduating she filled in as a 1st grade educator in Leechburg for twelve and a half years.
David Highfield Husband | Wedding
David is transparently gay. He is hitched to his significant other Gary Kline. Subsequent to dating for a considerable length of time, the couples helped wedded through a wedding in October 2015 at National Aviary, Pittsburgh.
David Highfield Salary
Highfield filling in as a commentator at KDKA, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania procures an expected yearly compensation of $75,489.
David Highfield Net Worth
David as a cultivated American transmission writer, anchor and journalist has an expected total assets of $1 million.
David Highfield KDKA | Wikipedia
David as of now functions as a co-anchor of “Pittsburgh Today Live” and co-host of “Your Pittsburgh” at KDKA-TV with Heather Abraham.
David started his vocation as an essayist at KDKA in 1991. He was subsequently elevated to a maker position. Following several years, he was elevated to a columnist position where he filled in as the Westmoreland County Bureau Chief and later as the Beaver/Butler Bureau Chief. He additionally filled in as a night columnist and fill-in anchor. In 2020, he was elevated to secure KDKA News at Noon.
He’s won 12 Mid-Atlantic Emmy Awards, for both facilitating and revealing. He’s moreover won two regional Edward R. Murrow Awards: One for his report on an expected association between Marcellus Shale exhausting and tremors, and one for an evaluation of how smoke cautions consistently don’t stir kids.
He likewise won Golden Quills for incorporate revealing, awards from the Pennsylvania Associated Press Broadcasters Association, and a Matrix award for flood inclusion. David made, facilitated and pioneer conveyed the Emmy award winning “Your Pittsburgh,” a night newsmagazine that ran for quite a while on KDKA.
Among the news events David takes care of: Visits to the U.S. by Pope Francis and Pope Benedict, the 2007 shootings at Virginia Tech, the repercussions of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans, the disaster at Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life spot of love in 2018, the death of Mayor Bob O’Connor, the mishap of Flight 427, Richard Baumhammers’ shooting gorge in 2000, and the 9/11 attack from both Shanksville and the Pentagon.
A piece of his reports have circled on WCBS in New York and KCBS in Los Angeles. He’s in like manner revealed live on drought conditions for “CBS This Morning” and on a train destroying for WBBM in Chicago. His old area enrolled him into the Ford City Hall of Fame in 2008, and in 2013, he was drafted into the Armstrong County Sports Hall of Fame for different games-related stories he’s covered all through the long haul.
He has allowed his opportunity to local causes including The KDKA-TV Turkey Fund, Animal Friends, Persad Center, Hair Peace, American Red Cross, Muscular Dystrophy Association, Cystic Fibrosis Foundation and Progressive Workshop of Armstrong County. David played a writer in the 2009 short film “Tommy and Me.” It was made by Fleadh Films and benefitted Operation Safety Net, which helps people who are desperate.