By Shaniah Taylor

You could live your whole life in Greensboro and never know where Greensboro College is. Our school is full of so much life and personality and expertise, but we are often overshadowed by bigger schools like NC A&T, UNCG and Guilford College. However, Greensboro College may have just found one way to set us apart.

This upcoming semester, Fall 2026, you may have seen in a list of courses the new ECM 3620 A: Real Stories Real Voices: Narrative Nonfiction course. What you may not have known if you missed a flyer is that this class will be taught online by David Page. If that does not ring a bell, think of him as the single thread tying together the fall of the Berlin Wall to a burger joint in Buffalo.

Page is a two-time Emmy Award-winning executive producer, living a life most journalists can only dream about. Page’s résumé is like a highlight reel of the last 40 years of history. He started his career in local TV as an on-camera investigative reporter in Phoenix, Houston and Atlanta, taking down nursing home abusers and corrupt union officials. But it was at NBC News, based in London, Frankfurt and Budapest, where Page made his mark as a foreign correspondent and producer.

He walked through Checkpoint Charlie into East Berlin the night the wall opened. He led NBC’s coverage on the ground during the Romanian revolution, a performance that won him an Emmy. He even interviewed Moammar Khaddafy in the remains of the dictator’s bombed-out mansion. At one point, while covering pre-war tensions in Baghdad, Page was the only NBC producer willing to enter the country. The Saddam Hussein government eventually threw him out just before American bombing.

Moving to ABC News, Page turned his eye toward domestic failures. As Senior Investigative Producer of 20/20, he led a unit that exposed the mistreatment of veterans by the Veterans Affairs (VA), earning him his second Emmy. His investigative unit tackled everything from retail racism to the murder of Tupac Shakur and Iranian counterfeiting of U.S. currency. He also served as a Senior Producer for Good Morning America and helped launch NBC’s Weekend Today Show.

Most journalists who cover war zones and political coups do not, however, invent the most popular show on the Food Network. He created Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives. He did not just put Guy Fieri in front of the camera — Page executive produced the show for its first 11 seasons, defining the visual language and storytelling style that turned “Triple D” into a ratings beast and household name. He continued his culinary journalism by creating and executive producing Beer Geeks (Emmy-nominated), Outrageous Food and Tailgate Warriors.

In addition to his television work, Page is an award-winning author. His book, Food Americana: The Remarkable People and Incredible Stories Behind America’s Favorite Dishes, dives into the immigrant and immigrant stories that created the U.S. food landscape.

With this expertise, students can expect greatness from the ECM 3620 course and not just learn how to point a camera or do a voiceover. Page intends to teach the art of Narrative Non-Fiction — the skill of taking real events and structuring them with the tension, character and payoff of a script, without sacrificing the truth of the story.

Anyone at all interested in the field of journalism, writing stories or even reading the news, this could be the class for you.