Darryl Carver
Darryl Carver currently serves as the Communications Division Manager for Fulton County Government. He oversees a team of public relations professionals including public affairs officers, digital and social media specialists and graphic artists. The unit provides public relations support and serves more than 40 Fulton County departments and several of the County’s elected leadership. Previously, he served as External Affairs Director for the Office of the Fulton County Commission Chairman. Carver is also a 2019 graduate of the University of Georgia’s Certified Public Manager program and a longtime member of the National Association of Black Journalists.
Darryl Carver previously worked as a broadcast journalist with a career spanning back more than two decades, most recently at WAGA-TV in Atlanta and Comcast Network in Philadelphia, as a general assignment reporter.
A 1991 graduate of the University of Virginia, Darryl began his television broadcasting career that year as Shenandoah Valley bureau chief for WVIR-TV in Charlottesville, VA. Since then, his career took him to Savannah, GA, Harrisburg, PA, Cincinnati, and Pittsburgh. Time spent at WJLA-TV in Washington, DC , returned the Baltimore , MD native to his roots. While there, he served as lead reporter on the September 11, 2001 attack on the Pentagon, covered the DC Beltway sniper case, as well as the successful negotiations to bring Major League Baseball back to DC. It was for his work on WJLA’s team coverage of Hurricane Isabel in 2003 that he received an Emmy.