David Abel
Filmmaker | Journalist | Professor of Communication
An award-winning reporter and documentary filmmaker, David Abel has covered war, coups, terrorism, natural disasters, a pandemic, poverty, climate change, and much more. He has been a writer for many years at the Boston Globe, where for the past decade he has covered climate change and other environmental issues.
In 2014, Abel and his colleagues won a Pulitzer Prize for their coverage of the Boston Marathon bombings. His films have been broadcast on the Discovery Channel, PBS, BBC World News, and other major platforms, winning numerous awards. His recent film, “In the Whale,” won the audience choice award at the New Hampshire Film Festival and other awards. His other new film, “Inundation District,” was broadcast on PBS’s World Channel in the fall of 2024. A previous film, “Entangled,” won a Jackson Wild award, known as the Oscars of nature films, and was nominated for a national Emmy. Abel’s work has also won an Edward R. Murrow award, the Ernie Pyle award from the Scripps Howard Foundation, and Sigma Delta Chi awards for feature reporting and climate reporting.
