David Ensor (journalist)

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A television and radio journalist for over 30 years, David Burnham Ensor [1] is a communications executive with experience in government, business and the non-profit sector.

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Ensor was the founding Director of the George Washington University Project for Media and National Security, a non-profit group bringing reporters, military leaders and national security leaders together for face-to-face conversations, in support of fact-based journalism. The Project includes the Defense Writers Group, a forty-year Washington, D.C. institution.

He was an Executive Vice President of the Atlantic Council, a Washington, D.C. think tank on international issues 2016–2017. In the Fall Term of 2015, he was a Fellow at the Shorenstein Center, at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government.

Ensor served as the 28th director of the Voice of America 2011–2015. During his four years leading VOA, its audience increased almost 40 percent. He co-founded a daily Russian language television show "Current Time" responding to the Russian invasion of Crimea, developed a partnership with the BBC fighting Ebola in Africa; and helped defend VOA against political attempts to weaken its journalistic independence. He helped VOA reach over 187 million globally per week in 45 languages, on television, radio, internet, social media.

In 2010–2011, he served as Director for Communications and Public Diplomacy of the U.S. Embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan. He led American efforts to help Afghans build a modern mobile telephone, social media, radio and television infrastructure, and a broad range of press and cultural activities designed to help Afghanistan recover from 30 years of war. He was one of the highest ranking representatives of President Obama's 'civilian surge' to serve in Afghanistan.

From 2006 to 2009, Ensor was the spokesman and Executive Vice President for Communications at Mercuria Energy Group. [2] Prior to joining Mercuria Energy Group he worked for 31 years as a journalist for National Public Radio, ABC News, and CNN. [3]

Education

Ensor earned a bachelor's degree with honors in European history from the University of California, Berkeley. [3] He graduated from Phillips Academy Andover in 1969.

Career as a journalist

From 1975 to 1980, Ensor was a reporter in Washington, D.C. for National Public Radio. He joined ABC News as White House correspondent in 1980, reporting on the presidency of Jimmy Carter. During his career at ABC News Ensor also served as a diplomatic correspondent for ABC News based at the U.S. State Department, and reported from Warsaw, Rome and Moscow. In August 1999, Ensor joined CNN, where he worked as national security correspondent based in Washington, D.C, reporting on the U.S. intelligence community and on national security issues such as international terrorism, the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and the national missile defense debate. For his 2004 CNN documentary "Warsaw Rising" on the 1944 Polish uprising against the Nazis, he received an Emmy nomination, a National Headliner Award and the Knight's Cross of the Order of Merit, from the President of Poland. [3] He left CNN in 2006. [4]

Organizations

Ensor is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. [3] [5]

Personal life

Ensor is the son of Mideast oil expert Andrew F. Ensor and grandson of the historian Sir Robert Ensor, one of the founders of the Fabian Society and of the Labour Party (UK). [6]

Publications

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References

  1. ↑ "Andrew Ensor". Legacy.com . Archived from the original on 2018-07-19. Retrieved 2020-07-14.
  2. ↑ New PKN Orlen--Mercuria term contract Archived 2011-07-14 at the Wayback Machine , David Ensor, Vice President for Communications, Mercuria Energy Group, Dec 1 2009. Accessed Apr 23 2010
  3. 1 2 3 4 Polonia Global Fund, "About David Ensor", Person of the Month, August 2004
  4. ↑ David Ensor Resigns From CNN; He's Taking A "Non-Television Job In Europe"
  5. ↑ CFR 2009 Annual Report, p. 32
  6. ↑ Schudel, Matt (2008-03-09). "Andrew F. Ensor, 90; Expert on Oil Policy In the Middle East". The Washington Post . ISSN   0190-8286 . Retrieved 2020-04-05.
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