David Akin

David Akin is a Canadian reporter.

Akin's career began in 1993 with The Packet and Times in Orillia, Ontario as the paper's city hall reporter. In 1995, he moved to The Chronicle Journal in Thunder Bay, Ontario where he worked as a senior reporter and joined The Hamilton Spectator and then the National Post, followed by The Globe and Mail.

From 2001 to 2008, Akin was a parliamentary correspondent for CTV News before joining Canwest News Service (now known as Postmedia) as a national affairs correspondent. At CTV, Akin won a Gemini Award for his reporting. The Globe and Mail reported that he resigned from Canwest on June 10, 2010, to become the first reporter for Sun Media's new all news cable service. From 2011 to 2015 he was the national bureau chief for Sun Media and the Sun News Network and hosted the The Daily Brief and, later, the hour-long prime time show Battleground. He was briefly a freelance reporter after the demise of the channel before returning to the Sun chain, following its acquisition by Postmedia, as parliamentary bureau chief and sole member of the chain's Parliamentary bureau.

Canadian playwright Michael Wheeler characterized Akin as having "broke ranks" with the rest of the Parliamentary press gallery when he asked the Prime Minister about Homegrown prior to its opening night. According to Wheeler all reporters had agreed upon a question about a prominent issue of the day which they would all ask if they were called upon for a question from the Prime Minister.

In February 2010 Akin reported, as fact, a rumor that Gordon Lightfoot had died.