Dave DeOreo
Coordinating ProducerExpertise: TV, audio and digital journalism, arts and culture
Education: Kenyon College - Bachelor of Arts
Ohio University - Master of Science, broadcast journalism
Favorite spot in Northeast Ohio: Edgewater Park
Experience:
Dave DeOreo began his broadcast career as a college DJ while at Kenyon College for WKCO where he discovered NPR. After Kenyon, he interned in the WCPN news department and later was hired in 1996 as a production assistant for a new arts and culture program, “Around Noon” with Dee Perry. For close to two decades, Dave worked on “Around Noon” as production assistant, assistant producer and producer. Today he’s coordinating producer for Ideastream Public Media’s arts and culture team and the lead producer for Ideastream Public Media’s weekly arts and culture program, “Applause.”
Highlights:
- 2024 Emmy Award, Arts/Entertainment - News, "Applause: A Forgotten Children’s Book by Langston Hughes and Elmer W. Brown Emerges in Cleveland"
- 2023 Emmy Award, Arts/Entertainment - News, “Applause: The art of the beer can”
- 2022 Emmy Award, Audio, “Applause Performances: Tri-C JazzFest”
- 2022 Gabriel Award, Best Use of Sound - TV, “Applause Performances: Tri-C JazzFest”
- 2019 Emmy Award, Magazine Program - Feature Segment, “Applause: Frank Oriti paints his generation”
- 2017 Press Club of Cleveland Award, Use of Sound, “A new day in Hough”
Why trust Ideastream Public Media?
The mission of Ideastream Public Media is to be a trustworthy and dynamic multimedia source for illuminating the world around us. Our highest priority is providing news and information that is reliable and accurate, that is gathered with integrity and professional care and that is presented with precision and respect for the intelligence of our audiences. We are transparent about how we discover and verify the facts we present and strive to make our decision-making process clear to the public. We disclose relationships, such as with partners or funders, that might appear, but will never, influence our coverage.
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Talise Campbell, passionate about sharing her West African culture, founded the Djapo Cultural Arts Institute in 2009 in Cleveland. -
Watch as guitar maker Freddy Hill works at his Screw Factory studio in Lakewood, Ohio. -
From dancing in Gordon Square and Ashtabula to comedy in Akron, it’s a fantastic time to enjoy the arts and culture of Northeast Ohio and the holiday season. -
Go behind the scenes as choreographer Talise Campbell creates a new work for Cleveland's Djapo Cultural Arts Institute. -
Take in a much-loved musical, make your own ornament or hop to a gallery as the holiday season begins in Northeast Ohio. -
Akron-based artist Meryl Engler was a part of a select group of Ohio artists to travel to Cuba earlier this year for an artistic residency with the 2024 Havana Biennial. -
Learn about the historic Cleveland School artists, hop aboard a miniature train in Medina or get spooked by a gothic ghost in Akron. -
This weekend features several anniversaries you can celebrate in Northeast Ohio. It’s 13 years for the Greater Cleveland Urban Film Festival, 25 years for the Tremont Arts & Cultural Festival and 40 years for both Kent State University’s Wick Poetry Center and the Cleveland Jazz Orchestra. -
Ideastream Public Media's Dave DeOreo shares the minor league baseball backstory of his latest piece on the Lake County Captains poster art series. -
The Lake County Captains hire young Northeast Ohio artists, including many students from the Cleveland Institute of Art, for its annual poster art series.
