Cara DeVito

Biography

Television, film and video editor Cara DeVito has produced numerous news features for broadcast, and received an Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Craft in film editing. Born in 1951, DeVito received a B.A. from Beloit College in Wisconsin, and went on to work for KTCA Television in Minneapolis. She has been a staff editor for NBC Network News in New York since 1981, and is a recipient of two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts. Her documentary work, focusing primarily on social and cultural issues, has earned a number of awards, including an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Documentary for What Could You Do With A Nickel?. DeVito lives in Verona, New Jersey.