Dave Carlin

Dave Carlin has covered major national news stories and events in the past four decades including Superstorm Sandy and its tri-state impacts, Hurricane Hugo in South Carolina and Iniki on Kauai, Hawaii. He also covered the Space Shuttle Program, 1989 San Francisco Earthquake, numerous Southern California wildfires, the trial and execution of serial killer Ted Bundy in Florida, the 1994 police shooting death of Tyke the escaped circus elephant on the streets of Honolulu, 2009's Miracle on the Hudson, the NYC Mayoral administrations of Bloomberg through Adams and more.

Prior to joining CBS News New York in 2006, he served as anchor/reporter at KSWB-TV in San Diego for six years, preceded by stints at CBS affiliates including KGMB-TV in Honolulu, Hawaii, where he worked for 10 years as an anchor/reporter. Before that Carlin worked at WHP-TV in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, where he took his first job as a weekday anchor. Carlin started his journalism career at KTBC-TV in Austin, Texas, as a general assignment reporter.

Carlin covers arts and entertainment. As he seeks out our region's best shows and exhibits and profiles artists and theater makers, he looks for arts stories with broader societal and community themes and historical significance. "We give you a strong sense of who these great artists really are. Not as stars, but as regular people. And we help you choose the right shows and attractions, some of them offered for free," Carlin said.

Carlin's work has earned him regional Emmy Awards from The Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, most recently in 2025 for his work on the special "Broadway and Beyond: At The Tonys." Previous awards include a Golden Mic Award and awards from the Society of Professional Journalists and The Associated Press.

Born in England and raised in Ithaca, New York, Carlin and his family also spent part of his childhood in Ghana, West Africa, where his father founded new programs at a school for deaf and blind children in Mampong. His family also lived in Mexico City in the early 1980s.

Carlin is a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin.