The East Cooper Breakfast Rotary Club will meet Tuesday, October 8th, 2019 at 7:30 a.m. in The Cooper River Room at the Mount Pleasant Waterfront Park. We are pleased to have David Slade, Post and Courier reporter, as our guest speaker. David will be speaking on Mount Pleasant town government and civic issues. Breakfast catered by Dish and Design Catering and Events.
David Slade is a senior Post and Courier reporter. His work has been honored nationally by Society of Professional Journalists, American Society of Newspaper Editors, Scripps foundation and others. Reach him at 843-937-5552 or dslade@postandcourier.com
David Slade’s personal finance column appears most Sundays in The Post and Courier. He also reports on issues related to the Charleston metro area’s rapid population growth.
He has been a newspaper reporter since 1992 and joined The Post and Courier in 2004. Prior to joining the newspaper business, he worked for The College Board in New York, and covered the international gemstone industry for Colored Stone, a trade magazine in suburban Philadelphia.
Slade has reported on local, county, and state government for newspapers in Illinois, Pennsylvania and South Carolina. He has also covered law enforcement, courts, public schools, environmental matters, transportation and general assignments.
He holds a master’s degree from University of Illinois (the Sangamon State Public Affairs Reporting program) and a bachelor’s degree from Temple University. Slade has won state and national awards for his reporting on property taxation and governmental affairs.
South Carolina Press Association (numerous awards, 2004-2015, multiple
categories); American Society of Newspaper Editors, Jesse Laventhol
Prize for Deadline News Reporting by a
Team (2008); National Headliner Awards, Investigative Reporting (2008);
Taylor/Tomlin Award for Investigative Journalism (2008); Society of
Professional Journalists, Sigma Delta Chi, online, deadline, and
non-deadline reporting (3 awards, 2007 and 2000); Newspaper Association
of America, Digital Edge Award (2001); Pennsylvania Associated Press
Managing Editors, Public Service Award (1998); Pennsylvania Newspaper
Publishers Association, Keystone Press Award, news series (1998).
