Youngest Journalist to Interview President Obama Graduates From High School
Damon Weaver was the youngest journalist ever to interview the president.
— -- He was the precocious 10-year-old boy in a tuxedo who whispered a question in journalist Diane Sawyer's ear on Inauguration night 2009. Then, at age 11, he became the youngest journalist ever to interview President Barack Obama.
Now, 18-year-old Damon Weaver adds another title to his already impressive resume: high school graduate.
Weaver graduated from Florida’s Royal Palm Beach High School Monday night. He plans to attend Albany State University in Georgia in the fall on a full-tuition scholarship, which he received as a fifth-grader.
He intends to major in mass communications, with a focus on electronic media.
Weaver captured national attention when he reported on the effects of gun violence in his hometown of Pahokee, Florida, on ABC News’ “20/20” in 2009. The question he whispered to Sawyer of ABC News: “What could Obama do to help out Pahokee?”
Weaver asked Obama that question and many others, both lighthearted ("Do you have the power to make school lunches better?") and serious ("What are you going to do to keep kids like me safe?") in a sit-down interview at the White House in 2009.
Weaver told ABC West Palm Beach affiliate WPBF-TV that he and the president met several times after the interview.
Weaver said at age 10 that he wanted “to be a journalist and a football player and a pilot and a person who trains whales and president and a senator and a commissioner.” He has narrowed those ambitions down a bit to the field in which he has already found much success: journalism.
ABC News’ Joshua Hoyos contributed to this report.
