David Hepp is an American

United States

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 journalist and reporter. He and Lise Bang-Jensen

Lise Bang-Jensen

Lise Bang-Jensen is a senior policy analyst at the Manhattan Institute's Empire Center for New York State Policy and was formerly a reporter, producer and co-host of the New York-based public affairs television program Inside Albany....

 created the Albany, New York

Albany, New York

Albany is the capital city of the U.S. state of New York, the seat of Albany County, and the central city of New York's Capital District. Roughly north of New York City, Albany sits on the west bank of the Hudson River, about south of its confluence with the Mohawk River...

-based Inside Albany

Inside Albany

Inside Albany was a weekly half-hour public affairs television program that aired on public television stations in New York State.Unlike its sister newsweekly TV program New York Week in Review, Inside Albany aired every week and did not go on hiatus in the summer or during the Christmas season...

news television program, which ran for several decades until it ceased production on December 31, 2006.

Hepp received the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award "for excellence in television journalism" as well as awards from the Associated Press

Associated Press

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, the American Bar Association

American Bar Association

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, the New York State Bar Association

New York State Bar Association

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 and the New York State Broadcasters Association.

Education

David Hepp holds degrees from Siena College

Siena College

Siena College is an independent Roman Catholic liberal arts college in Loudonville, in the town of Colonie, New York, United States. Siena is a four-year, coeducational, independent college in the Franciscan tradition, founded by the Franciscan Friars in 1937. It has 3,000 full-time students and...

 and Syracuse University

Syracuse University

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's Newhouse School of Public Communications.

External links

• Hepp biodata