David Martin Davies

Host, "The Source," "Texas Matters"
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    David Martin Davies
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David Martin Davies is  a veteran journalist with more than 20 years of experience covering Texas, the border and Mexico. 

Davies is the host of "The Source," am hour-long live call-in news program that airs on KSTX at noon Monday through Thursday. Since 1999 he was been the host and producer of "Texas Matters," a weekly radio news magazine and podcast that looks at the issues, events and people in the Lone Star State. 

Davies' reporting has been featured on National Public Radio, American Public Media's "Marketplace" and the BBC. He has written for The San Antonio Light, The San Antonio Express-News, The Texas Observer and other publications.

His reporting has been recognized with numerous awards. Davies was named the 2008 Texas Radio Journalist of the Year by the Houston Press Club. In 2015, he was recognized with two First Amendment Awards by the Fort Worth Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists. The Association for Women in Communications San Antonio Professional Chapter honored Davies with the 2015 Edna McGaffey Media Excellence Headliner Award.

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Texas Matters: Legacy Of Poverty & Border Families

By • Jun 18, 2018
David Martin Davies / TPR News

On This episode of "Texas Matters":

  • 50 years after CBS's Hunger In America  exposed San Antonio's poverty
  • Senator John Cornyn on border family separations (10:13).
  • San Antonio rallys against border family separations (11:22).
  • How the Texas Border is the most over policed area in the nation (15:27).
  • A daughter remembers her father's office on the border (24:01).


An 'Authorized' Look Into The Life Of Rock 'N' Roll Icon Roy Orbison

By & • Jun 11, 2018
Courtesy Center Street Publishing

A Texan born and raised, singer-songwriter Roy Orbison got his start in a rockabilly band in high school. 


'Hunger In America': The 1968 Documentary That Exposed San Antonio Poverty

By • Jun 8, 2018
CBS News

It was 50 years ago that a documentary exposed the conditions on the San Antonio Westside that shocked the nation.

America saw disturbing images of extreme poverty and malnutrition that was common in San Antonio.

Half a century later the CBS program “Hunger in America” continues to resonate in San Antonio.

 


Texas Matters: 'The Old Army' On The U.S.-Mexico Border

By • Jun 4, 2018
United States Army / http://bit.ly/2LYWinF

Today’s newspaper headlines tell us about increased U.S. military presence along the U.S. Mexico border, mirroring press reports from a century ago.

On this episode of "Texas Matters," Thomas T. “Ty” Smith joins us to discuss new information from Army source documents about the era that’s been largely overlook by military historians. He's the author of “The Old Army in the Big Bend of Texas – The Last Calvary Frontier 1911-1921."


'Where Are The Children?' Asks Crowd Protesting Trump Immigration Policy

By • Jun 1, 2018
David Martin Davies / Texas Public Radio

Several hundred San Antonians turned out Thursday to voice their outrage against a Trump administration policy that is separating parents and children when they cross the border illegally.

“Where are the children” is the hashtag driving the debate online about immigration with minors who have come across the border unaccompanied and those separated from their parents. 


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