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American journalist
Jeremy W. Peters
is an American reporter and author for
The New York Times
.
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He has covered three presidential elections for the newspaper, most recently the
2020 presidential election
.
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not verified in body
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He is an MSNBC contributor,
[2]
and has also appeared on
Washington Week
on
PBS
.
[3]
In February 2022, he published his first book,
Insurgency: How Republicans Lost Their Party and Got Everything They Ever Wanted
,
[4]
which was selected as a
New York Times
Editor's Choice
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citation needed
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and was reviewed in
The Washington Post
[5]
and
The Guardian
.
[6]
Early life and education
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Jeremy W. Peters
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clarification needed
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was born in
Royal Oak, Michigan
.
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when?
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Peters earned his bachelor's degree in history and political science from the
University of Michigan
.
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Career
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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
[7]
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third-party source needed
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as a freelancer.
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citation needed
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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.
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citation needed
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In 2009, while assigned to the Albany bureau, he was part of the team that won the Pulitzer Prize for breaking news, for its coverage of the sex scandal that resulted in the resignation of Gov.
Eliot Spitzer
.
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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.
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citation needed
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Peters was one of several Times journalists featured in the 2018 Showtime documentary,
The Fourth Estate
.
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citation needed
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References
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Kim, Mina.
"Politics Reporter Jeremy W. Peters Traces Trump’s Hold on the GOP in ‘Insurgency’"
,
KQED-FM
, February 16, 2022. Accessed February 14, 2024. "That’s the question driving New York Times national politics reporter Jeremy W. Peters’s new book
Insurgency: How Republicans Lost Their Party and Got Everything They Ever Wanted.
"
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a
b
Peters, Jeremy W. & NYT Staff.
"Jeremy W. Peters"
.
The New York Times
.
ISSN
0362-4331
. Retrieved
April 10,
2018
.
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Peters, Jeremy W. & PBS Staff (November 16, 2017).
"Jeremy Peters"
.
Washington Week
. Retrieved
April 10,
2018
.
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Peters, Jeremy W. (February 2022).
Insurgency: How Republicans Lost Their Party and Got Everything They Ever Wanted
. Crown.
ISBN
978-0-525-57658-7
. Retrieved
December 5,
2022
.
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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
.
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Green, Lloyd (February 13, 2022).
"Insurgency Review: How Trump Took Over the Republican Party"
.
TheGuardian.com
. Retrieved
December 5,
2022
.
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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.
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Fang, Marina.
"Pulitzer-winning journalist traces path to political reporting"
,
The Chicago Maroon
, May 25, 2012. Accessed February 14, 2024. "He was a part of a team of Times reporters that won a Pulitzer Prize for breaking news reporting in 2009 for chronicling the resignation of former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer following a sex scandal with an escort service."
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The NYT
(April 20, 2009).
"2009 Pulitzer Prizes for Journalism"
.
The New York Times
. Retrieved
December 5,
2022
.
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