Jeremy W. Peters Explained

Jeremy W. Peters
Birth Place:	Royal Oak, Michigan, United States
Alma Mater:	University of Michigan
Occupation:	Reporter, Author
Employer:	The New York Times

Jeremy W. Peters is an American reporter and author for The New York Times.^{[1] [2]} He has covered three presidential elections for the newspaper, most recently the 2020 presidential election. He is an MSNBC contributor, 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 and was reviewed in The Washington Post^[5] and The Guardian.^[6]

Early life and education

Jeremy W. Peters was born in Royal Oak, Michigan.

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

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^[7] as a freelancer. 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. 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.^{[8] [9]}

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. Peters was one of several Times journalists featured in the 2018 Showtime documentary, The Fourth Estate.

Further reading

• Web site: Jeremy W. Peters Archive. REDEF. en. 10 April 2018. – Redef.com compilation of published work by Peters
• News: Peters to cover newspapers, magazines for NYT . Memo to New York Times staff . Romenesko . Jim. 24 May 2010. Poynter. en. 10 April 2018. – Personal memo to NYT staff at time of Peters' hiring
• Web site: Showtime Staff . The Fourth Estate: Four Part Docu-Series . Sho.com . May 27, 2018 . 5 December 2022. – Programming webpage for this AV work

Notes and References

1. 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."
2. News: Peters, Jeremy W. & NYT Staff . Jeremy W. Peters. The New York Times. 10 April 2018. en-US. 0362-4331.
3. News: Peters, Jeremy W. & PBS Staff . Jeremy Peters. 16 November 2017. Washington Week. 10 April 2018. en.
4. Book: Peters, Jeremy W. . February 2022 . Insurgency: How Republicans Lost Their Party and Got Everything They Ever Wanted . Crown . 978-0-525-57658-7 . 5 December 2022.
5. News: Lozada, Carlos . February 3, 2022 . How Trump's Political Style Smothered the Last Substance Left in the GOP . . Washington, D.C. . 0190-8286 . 1330888409 . 5 December 2022.
6. News: Green, Lloyd . 13 February 2022 . Insurgency Review: How Trump Took Over the Republican Party . . 5 December 2022 .
7. Web site: Peters, Jeremy W. & Crown Staff . Jeremy Peters, New York Times Political Reporter, to Write the Definitive Account of the Battle for the Republican Party for Crown. 5 December 2017. The Crown Publishing Group. en-US. 10 April 2018 . press release . 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..
8. 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."
9. News: . 2009 Pulitzer Prizes for Journalism. The New York Times. 20 April 2009 . 5 December 2022.