Biography
David Obst is an American writer, producer and former journalist. He managed Dispatch News Service in Washington, D.C., in the late 1960s and helped distribute Seymour Hersh's reporting on the My Lai massacre.
Obst later worked as a literary agent and wrote or produced several films, including Revenge of the Nerds (1984), The Whoopee Boys (1986) and Johnny Be Good (1988). He appears as himself in the 2025 documentary Cover-Up.
