Dave Schermer joined Cincinnati Public Radio in 2014 as a part-time host and merged into a full-time production/operations engineering role in 2016. He earlier worked in radio, Teletext (a broadcast precursor to the Internet) and TV in various reporting, managerial and educational capacities and taught in elementary schools in Ohio and California and at the University of Florida and Northern Kentucky University. 

As a journalist, Dave covered numerous presidential visits and campaign stops, the World Series, the Donald Harvey serial killings, the Carrollton bus collision that was the nation’s deadliest drunk driving incident, the Miamisburg train derailment and chemical spill which led to Ohio’s largest mass evacuation, wildfires, hurricanes including Charley and Ivan and the Pete Rose tax evasion trial. 

He contributed several of these stories to networks, including National Public Radio, ABC and the Associated Press. He has also interviewed one-on-one scores of politicians (former president Gerald Ford, sitting governors and US senators and two future House speakers), sports Hall of Famers (Paul Brown, Woody Hayes, Weeb Eubank and Archie Griffin) and celebrities (William F. Buckley, Wendy’s Dave Thomas and Tiny Tim).