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David Abel is an award-winning reporter and documentary filmmaker. He's also a professor of journalism at Boston University. He spent 25 years as a reporter at The Boston Globe, where he was part of the team that won a Pulitzer Prize for their coverage of the Boston Marathon bombings. Abel has spent more than a decade covering climate change and other environmental issues. His work has won an Edward R. Murrow Award, the Ernie Pyle Award from the Scripps Howard Foundation, and the Sigma Delta Chi Award for Feature Reporting. His films include the Emmy-nominated “Entangled,” which was broadcast on PBS, and other award-winning feature films, such as "In the Whale," “Inundation District,” “Lobster War,” and “Sacred Cod.” His most recent film, "The Petal Pusher," is an ode to New York City's Penn Station and his family's flower business there. It premiered at the DOCNYC Film Festival. Abel began learning to make films as a Nieman fellow at Harvard University. See more about him at www.davidsabel.com.
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