David Bloom
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David Bloom (May 22, 1963 – April 6, 2003) was an NBC journalist (co-anchor of Weekend Today and reporter) until his sudden death in 2003 at the age of 39. Bloom was traveling with the 3rd Infantry Division in Iraq when he suddenly collapsed due to a pulmonary embolism. He was pronounced dead an hour later.
David Bloom grew up in Minnesota, an avid ice hockey player and high school debater. He began his television career in LaCrosse, Wisconsin. But he had bigger plans, and they began to take shape when he took to the airwaves in Miami. Hurricane Andrew, the storm that devastated south Florida, showed David in his element — in the middle of the big story. In 1991 he won a Regional Emmy for investigative journalism for his report on South Florida's role in the shipment of arms to Iraq. He won both the Peabody Award and the TNDA Edward R. Murrow Award for his hurricane coverage, and a job as an NBC News correspondent followed. Soon, he became a White House correspondent. David considered his most passionate role the family man for his wife and three daughters.
Bloom attended Pitzer College in Claremont, California from 1981 to 1985 where he was a national debate champion. He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science. He was a native of Edina, Minnesota, and is survived by his wife, Melanie, and three daughters.
On March 30, 2006 ABC World News Tonight co-anchor Bob Woodruff received the Radio & Television Association David Bloom award for excellence in enterprise reporting. The award was created to honor the late Bloom.