Peter James Spielmann (born 1952) is a veteran

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in the foreign service of The

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, and is an editor and supervisor on AP's North America desk. He taught at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism from 1989–93, and from 2001–07. Spielmann is a member of the editorial board of the quarterly ''Journal of Human Rights'' He has been a public speaker on human rights and journalism issues at many venues, including the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard; New York University;

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; Purchase College; and the Foreign Press Center in New York City. In a June 29th, 1989, Spielmann reported the UN said global warming could wipe entire nations off the Earth due to rising ocean levels by the year 2000.

Career

He began his career in journalism working for alternative newsweeklies—the ''New Times'' in

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, and ''The Bugle-American'' in

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; he earned a B.A. at the

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. Spielmann then freelanced for magazines and newspapers and wrote the book ''The Life Insurance Conspiracy'' (1979). After earning an M.S. from Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism in 1984, Spielmann worked as an investigative editor for the

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, and joined AP’s International Desk the following year. Spielmann was an AP correspondent at the

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for five years. He contributed chapters to the book A ''Global Agenda: Issues before the United Nations'' (1993). From 1993-1999, Spielmann was the AP news editor and correspondent for the South Pacific, based in

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, dispatched on other assignments including

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, South Korea,

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in 1999 to cover

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at the end of the

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crisis; and

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.International Reporting Project
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stories and the international impasse over

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’s nuclear weapons program.

Fellowships

* Pew Gatekeeper Fellow for studies in

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, 2002 * Dart Fellow in Journalism and Trauma, 2002. *Fulbright Senior Specialist in journalism at

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: "International Reporting: Special Topics.", 2008. *Pew Gatekeeper Fellow for a fact-finding trip to Peru, 2009.

References

External links

Spielmann at salon.com
{{DEFAULTSORT:Spielmann, Peter James Living people American male journalists Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism alumni University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee alumni Columbia University faculty 1952 births