Dave Mistich
Senior ReporterDave Mistich is the Charleston Reporter for West Virginia Public Broadcasting. A native of Washington, West Virginia, Dave can be heard throughout week on West Virginia Public Radio, including during West Virginia Morning and Inside Appalachia. He also anchors local newscasts during Weekend Edition on Saturday mornings and covers the House of Delegates for The Legislature Today.
Since joining West Virginia Public Broadcasting in October of 2012, Dave has produced stories that range from the 2012 general election, the effects of Superstorm Sandy on Nicholas County and a feature on the burgeoning craft beer industry in the state. He has also contributed to NPR's newscasts upon three occasions thus far—covering the natural gas line explosion in Sissonville in December, U.S. Senator Jay Rockefeller's announcement that he won't seek reelection in 2014 and the murder of Mingo County Sheriff Eugene Crum.
In June 2013, his coverage of the Sissionville explosion won an award for Best Breaking News from the West Virginia Associated Press Broadcasters Association.
Before coming to West Virginia Public Broadcasting, Dave worked as a freelancer for various newspapers and magazines locally and around the country, including Relix, The Charleston Daily Mail and PopMatters, where he focused exclusively on critiquing and writing about popular music.
A graduate of Marshall University’s W. Page Pitt School of Journalism & Mass Communications, Dave holds a Bachelor of Arts in Radio-Television Production & Management. He is also finishing a Master of Arts Journalism degree there and is hopelessly trying to complete a thesis which focuses on America’s first critically-oriented rock magazine, Crawdaddy!
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The Monongalia County Sheriff’s Department says a tractor trailer carrying Moderna COVID-19 vaccines lost control on Interstate-79 early Friday morning — sending a truck driver to the hospital and closing a stretch of highway. -
Roll Call reported Wednesday that a six-member non-partisan board at the OCE recommended that the House Ethics Committee — made up of five Republican and five Democratic House members — review the matter further. -
Gov. Jim Justice announced Monday that, over the past eight weeks, there has been a 26% increase in new breakthrough cases, a 21% increase in breakthrough cases requiring hospitalization and a 25% increase in breakthrough deaths. -
While the federal government plans a rollout of coronavirus vaccine booster shots, West Virginia officials are prepared to balance efforts between getting the shot to those unvaccinated, all the while offering boosters to those who have already gotten their initial doses. -
Viatris, formerly known as Mylan Pharmaceuticals, has announced it is planning on entering into a memorandum of understanding with West Virginia University regarding the potential transfer of ownership of the Chestnut Ridge facility in Morgantown. -
President Joe Biden has nominated West Virginia State Sen. William Ihlenfeld, R-Ohio, to once again serve as the top federal prosecutor in the northern part of the state. The White House announced the nomination in a Tuesday news release, along with picks for seven other prosecutor positions. -
The Greenbrier Hotel Corp. has paid off more than $1.4 million in federal tax debts, according to documents filed by the Internal Revenue Service. -
With COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations on the rise, West Virginia officials say the delta variant is causing more extreme spread than previous strains of the virus. State officials say the fast-spreading variant could lead to a surge more deadly than previous waves of the pandemic. -
A group of Democrats from West Virginia’s statehouse were in the nation’s capital Tuesday to support federal legislation that would reinforce voting rights and overhaul various aspects of elections. -
Despite growing concerns about the highly infectious coronavirus delta variant, West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice said Monday he is not yet going to reinstate a mask mandate. However, in lieu of such a measure, Justice and his health advisers are urging high-risk individuals to wear masks in public and continue to ask all residents to get vaccinated.
