David Nikuradze
David Nikuradze (Georgian:დავით ნიკურაძე) (born November 2, 1975) is a journalist representing the Georgian television network Rustavi 2.
Nikuradze was the only journalist from Georgia who covered the military campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan. He also covered Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath, and the United States presidential elections in 2004 and 2008. Nikuradze has interviewed many high-profile figures including US President George W. Bush in White House before his official visit to Georgia.
Nikuradze has produced several documentary films, among them 9/11 Aftermath and US Aviation Security, Alaska, and Georgian-Ossetian Conflict and Economic Rehabilitation, the only documentary made in Tskhinvali by Georgian media since the first military conflict ended in South Ossetia.
Nikuradze reported on Avian Influenza cases from Turkish hospitals. In 2005 he interviewed the family of jewelry retailer BVLGARI and produced a short documentary feature AbOUT the fashion business in Italy.
Since 2004, Nikuradze has been the Washington, D.C. correspondent for Rustavi 2.
Previously he reported for Radio Free Europe, Voice of America, was a senior correspondent for Rustavi 2, and served as a television news producer and newspaper reporter in Georgia.