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Jeremy W. Peters
Born
Royal Oak, Michigan, United States[citation needed]
Alma materUniversity of Michigan[citation needed]
Occupation(s)Journalist, Author
EmployerThe New York Times

Jeremy W. Peters is an American journalist, author and reporter for The New York Times.[1][third-party source needed] He has covered three presidential elections for the newspaper, most recently the 2020 presidential election.[not verified in body] He is an MSNBC contributor,[1] and has also appeared on Washington Week on PBS.[2] In February 2022, he published his first book, Insurgency: How Republicans Lost Their Party and Got Everything They Ever Wanted,[3] which was selected as a New York Times Editor's Choice[citation needed] and was reviewed in The Washington Post[4] and The Guardian.[5]

Early life and education

Jeremy W. Peters[clarification needed] was born in Royal Oak, Michigan.[when?][citation needed]

Peters earned his bachelor's degree in history and political science from the University of Michigan.[citation needed]

Career

When Peters was in his senior year at the University of Michigan he was a reporter and editor for The Michigan Daily and began contributing to The New York Times[6][third-party source needed] as a freelancer.[citation needed] He then worked for two years in the Virgin Islands for The Virgin Islands Daily News before returning to the Times as a reporter for the business and national desks based in Detroit.[citation needed] In 2009, while assigned to the Albany bureau, he was part of the team that won the Pulitzer Prize for breaking news,[7][verification needed][better source needed] for its coverage of the sex scandal that resulted in the resignation of Gov. Eliot Spitzer.[citation needed]

His coverage of the Republican Party and the conservative movement for The Times became the basis for his book, Insurgency, which the Crown Publishing Group acquired in 2017.[citation needed] Peters was one of several Times journalists featured in the 2018 Showtime documentary, The Fourth Estate.[citation needed]

References

  1. ^ a b Peters, Jeremy W. & NYT Staff. "Jeremy W. Peters". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved April 10, 2018.
  2. ^ Peters, Jeremy W. & PBS Staff (November 16, 2017). "Jeremy Peters". Washington Week. Retrieved April 10, 2018.
  3. ^ Peters, Jeremy W. (February 2022). Insurgency: How Republicans Lost Their Party and Got Everything They Ever Wanted. ISBN 978-0-525-57658-7. Retrieved December 5, 2022.
  4. ^ Lozada, Carlos (February 3, 2022). "How Trump's Political Style Smothered the Last Substance Left in the GOP". The Washington Post. Washington, D.C. ISSN 0190-8286. OCLC 1330888409. Retrieved December 5, 2022.
  5. ^ Green, Lloyd (February 13, 2022). "Insurgency Review: How Trump Took Over the Republican Party". TheGuardian.com. Retrieved December 5, 2022.
  6. ^ Peters, Jeremy W. & Crown Staff (December 5, 2017). "Jeremy Peters, New York Times Political Reporter, to Write the Definitive Account of the Battle for the Republican Party for Crown" (press release). The Crown Publishing Group. Retrieved April 10, 2018. About the Author: Jeremy Peters has been a reporter for the New York Times for more than a decade, covering the 2012 and 2016 presidential campaigns, Congress, and a variety of other topics including the economy, the media, and New York politics. Peters began contributing to the New York Times as a senior at the University of Michigan, where he was a reporter and editor for The Michigan Daily. A contributor to MSNBC, Peters lives in Washington, D.C.
  7. ^ The NYT (April 20, 2009). "2009 Pulitzer Prizes for Journalism". The New York Times. Retrieved December 5, 2022.[better source needed]

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