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Dave Timko
Biography
Dave Timko, an Emmy-award winning television journalist with more than two decades of experience, is a senior editor, producer and director for CNN Productions. In those roles, Timko has helped produce over 30 documentaries for CNN Presents and CNN: Special Investigations Unit. He is based in CNN’s world headquarters in Atlanta.
Timko joined CNN in 1985 as a video journalist and has held various production and editing roles as he carved out a niche as documentary filmmaker, regularly shooting, producing and editing long-form programs for the network. He joined CNN Productions, the network division that handles long-form programming and specials, at its inception in 2001. Since then, he’s had senior roles in documentaries including God’s Warriors, Black in America, Grady’s Anatomy, America Remembers and Homicide in Hollenbeck.
Among his awards is a National Emmy for Hurricane Katrina: Heroes of the Storm in 2006, and the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia Silver Baton for God’s Warriors
in 2008.
Timko graduated from Kent State University with a bachelor’s degree in communications.
