David Folkenflik (born September 15, 1969)[1] is an American reporter based in New York City and serving as media correspondent for NPR.

His work primarily appears on the NPR news programs Morning Edition and All Things Considered.

He also appeared regularly on the "Media Circus" segment on the former Talk of the Nation.

He spent more than 10 years at The Baltimore Sun, covering higher education, the United States Congress, and the mass media, before joining NPR in 2004.

[7][8] Folkenflik is the author of Murdoch's World: The Last of the Old Media Empires, a 2013 history of Rupert Murdoch's global media influence with a focus on the United Kingdom scandals of News Corporation.