> # David Mattingly
> CNN Correspondent

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> From CNN's Web Site

> Also see CNN 6-18-97 Mind Control Coverage

> David Mattingly is a producer and correspondent for CNN's new quarterly newsmagazine series, THE AMERICAN EDGE, the network's award-winning environment program, EARTH MATTERS and for a monthly series on TBS Superstation. Mattingly is responsible for all phases of story production and from conception and development to post production.

> Since joining the program in 1992, Mattingly has traveled from Vietnam to South Africa, winning a number of national journalism awards. He won an Emmy award for his contribution to the CNN Presents program focusing on the Mississippi River floods. He has received a National Headliner Award, Genesis Award, a Worldfest Houston Award and has been recognized by the American Women in Radio and Television for his profile of an American doctor in the Amazon rainforests of Peru.

> Mattingly's broadcast career began in 1981 covering human rights and racial issues in rural Alabama, working as a reporter at the CBS affiliate in Tuscaloosa. In 1982, he began a long tenure with the NBC affiliate in Birmingham, AL, where he worked as a political and environmental reporter, documentary producer and news anchor.

> Mattingly's major achievements included pioneering environmental reporting in the deep south, producing documentaries on the dangers of lead poisoning, threats to important natural resources and the politics of hazardous waste disposal.

> Two of Mattingly's documentaries, The Amazon Rainforest and The Brink of Extinction, have each won him regional Emmy Awards for best documentary.