David Nakamura is an American journalist who works as the White House reporter for The Washington Post.

Nakamura is of Japanese[2] and Jewish descent[3][non-primary source needed][4][non-primary source needed] and raised in northern Virginia.

[5] In 1992, he worked as a summer intern for The Washington Post before accepting a full-time position as a sports reporter.

[2] He returned to the US where he worked on the local news team focusing on education and city government in Washington, D.C., Virginia, and Maryland.

[5] In 2005, he won the Selden Ring Award for investigative reporting for a 2004 story on lead contamination in tap water in D.C.[5] In 2016, he received an honorable mention by the Merriman Smith Memorial Award for excellence in presidential news coverage under deadline.