"A Sid Davis Production"
Former vice president, NBC News
Sid Davis has served as a reporter, White House Correspondent and news executive. He was a vice president and Washington Bureau Chief for NBC News, and Washington Bureau Chief and White House correspondent for Westinghouse Broadcasting Company.
As White House correspondent for Westinghouse Broadcasting, Sid traveled to Vietnam , the former Soviet Union , the Peoples Republic of China , Korea , Latin America , the Middle East and Europe covering Presidents. He directed coverage of political conventions, Watergate, the Gulf War and the uprisings that brought the end of the Cold War. In Dallas on November 22, 1963 , Sid was one of three correspondents to witness the swearing-in of President Johnson aboard Air Force One after covering the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. In all, Sid covered or directed news coverage of nine presidents.
Sid appears on television discussing the media, has written for The Washington Post, American Heritage Magazine (AMH), TV Quarterly and Broadcasting Magazine , and has done media commentary for National Public Radio. The November/December ‘03 issue of AMH carried Sid's account of the swearing-in of President Lyndon Johnson on the 40 th anniversary of the assassination.
Sid was a guest scholar studying the media at the Brookings Institution, where he continues to lecture. He also lectures on the media at university seminars. Sid spent seven years as program director of the Voice of America, directing its worldwide broadcasts in 46 languages. He began his professional career as a reporter and then as news director at WKBN-TV in Youngstown , Ohio
Sid is a graduate of Ohio University and was recently honored with the L.J. Hortin Distinguished Alumnus Journalism Award