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'''Jeremy W. Peters''' is an American journalist, author and reporter for ''[[The New York Times]]'',.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://redef.com/author/55992b9302db973923a4cde6|title=Jeremy W. Peters Archive|website=REDEF|language=en|access-date=10 April 2018}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/by/jeremy-w-peters|title=Jeremy W. Peters|work=The New York Times|access-date=10 April 2018|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> He has covered three presidential elections for the newspaper, most recently the [[2020 United States presidential election|2020 presidential election]]. He is an MSNBC contributor and has also appeared on ''[[Washington Week in Review]]'' on [[PBS]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.pbs.org/weta/washingtonweek/profile/jeremy-peters|title=Jeremy Peters|date=16 November 2017|work=Washington Week|access-date=10 April 2018|language=en}}</ref> In February 2022, he published his first book, ''Insurgency: How Republicans Lost Their Party and Got Everything They Ever Wanted'',<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/586398/insurgency-by-jeremy-w-peters/|title=Insurgency by Jeremy W. Peters: 9780525576587 &#124; PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books|website=PenguinRandomhouse.com|access-date=7 April 2022}}</ref> which was selected as a New York Times Editor's Choice and received strong reviews from other major publications, including The Washington Post <ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2022/02/03/insurgency-jeremy-peters/ |title=How Trump’s political style smothered the last substance left in the GOP |date=2022-02-03 |author1=Carlos Lozada |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |place=Washington, D.C. |issn=0190-8286 |oclc=1330888409}}</ref> and The Guardian.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/feb/13/insurgency-review-trump-republicans-jeremy-peters-new-york-times | title=Insurgency review: How Trump took over the Republican party | website=[[TheGuardian.com]] | date=13 February 2022 }}</ref>
'''Jeremy W. Peters''' is an American reporter and author for ''[[The New York Times]]''.<ref>Kim, Mina. [https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101887885/politics-reporter-jeremy-w-peters-traces-trumps-hold-on-the-gop-in-insurgency "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.''"</ref><ref name=NYTselfdescription>{{Cite news |author=Peters, Jeremy W. & NYT Staff |url=https://www.nytimes.com/by/jeremy-w-peters|title=Jeremy W. Peters|work=The New York Times|access-date=10 April 2018|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}}</ref>{{third-party inline |date=December 2022}} He has covered three presidential elections for the newspaper, most recently the [[2020 United States presidential election|2020 presidential election]].{{not verified in body |date=December 2022}} He is an MSNBC contributor,<ref name=NYTselfdescription /> and has also appeared on ''[[Washington Week in Review|Washington Week]]'' on [[PBS]].<ref>{{Cite news|author=Peters, Jeremy W. & PBS Staff |url=http://www.pbs.org/weta/washingtonweek/profile/jeremy-peters|title=Jeremy Peters|date=16 November 2017|work=Washington Week|access-date=10 April 2018|language=en}}</ref> In February 2022, he published his first book, ''Insurgency: How Republicans Lost Their Party and Got Everything They Ever Wanted'',<ref>{{Cite book |author= Peters, Jeremy W. |date=February 2022 |title=Insurgency: How Republicans Lost Their Party and Got Everything They Ever Wanted |publisher=Crown |isbn=978-0-525-57658-7 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FyHzDwAAQBAJ |access-date=5 December 2022}}</ref> which was selected as a ''New York Times'' Editor's Choice{{Citation needed|date=September 2022}} and was reviewed in ''The Washington Post''<ref>{{cite news |author=Lozada, Carlos |date=February 3, 2022 |title=How Trump's Political Style Smothered the Last Substance Left in the GOP |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2022/02/03/insurgency-jeremy-peters/ |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |place=Washington, D.C. |issn=0190-8286 |oclc=1330888409 |access-date=5 December 2022}}</ref> and ''The Guardian''.<ref>{{cite news |author=Green, Lloyd |date=13 February 2022 |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/feb/13/insurgency-review-trump-republicans-jeremy-peters-new-york-times |title=Insurgency Review: How Trump Took Over the Republican Party |website=[[TheGuardian.com]] |access-date=5 December 2022 }}</ref>


== Early life and education ==
== Education ==
Jeremy W. Peters{{clarify|date=December 2022}} was born in [[Royal Oak, Michigan]].{{when|date=December 2022}}{{citation needed|date=December 2022}}
Peters earned his bachelor's degree in history and political science from the [[University of Michigan]].<ref name="Poynter">{{Cite news|url=https://www.poynter.org/news/peters-cover-newspapers-magazines-nyt|title=Peters to cover newspapers, magazines for NYT|last=Romenesko|first=Jim|date=24 May 2010|work=Poynter|language=en|access-date=10 April 2018}}</ref>

Peters earned his bachelor's degree in history and political science from the [[University of Michigan]].{{citation needed|date=December 2022}} At the university, he wrote for [[The Michigan Daily|''The'' ''Michigan Daily'']]''.''<ref>{{Cite web |last=Geva |first=Shoham |date=2014-09-28 |title=With historical lens, The Michigan Daily enters 125th year |url=https://www.michigandaily.com/uncategorized/daily-enters-125th-year/ |access-date=2024-08-27 |website=The Michigan Daily |language=en-US}}</ref>


== Career ==
== 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]]'' 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.<ref name="Poynter" /><ref name="Crown">{{Cite web|url=http://crownpublishing.com/archives/news/jeremy-peters-new-york-times-political-reporter-write-definitive-account-battle-republican-party-crown#.Wl-n9lQ-eL5|title=Jeremy Peters, New York Times Political Reporter, to Write the Definitive Account of the Battle for the Republican Party for Crown|date=5 December 2017|website=The Crown Publishing Group|language=en-US|access-date=10 April 2018}}</ref> His beats at the Times have included breaking financial news, the media and New York politics. In 2009, while assigned to the Albany bureau, he was part of the team that won the Pulitzer Prize for breaking news,<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/20/business/media/2009-journalism-pulitzer.html|title = 2009 Pulitzer Prizes for Journalism|newspaper = The New York Times|date = 20 April 2009}}</ref> for its coverage of the sex scandal that resulted in the resignation of Gov. [[Eliot Spitzer]].
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]]''<ref>{{Cite web|author=Peters, Jeremy W. & Crown Staff |url=http://crownpublishing.com/archives/news/jeremy-peters-new-york-times-political-reporter-write-definitive-account-battle-republican-party-crown#.Wl-n9lQ-eL5|title=Jeremy Peters, New York Times Political Reporter, to Write the Definitive Account of the Battle for the Republican Party for Crown|date=5 December 2017|publisher=The Crown Publishing Group|language=en-US|access-date=10 April 2018 |format=press release |quote=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.}}</ref>{{third-party inline|date=December 2022}} as a freelancer.{{citation needed|date=December 2022}} 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|date=December 2022}} 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]].<ref>Fang, Marina. [https://chicagomaroon.com/15725/news/pulitzer-winning-journalist-traces-path-to-political-reporting/ "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."</ref><ref>{{Cite news|author=[[The New York Times|The NYT]] |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/20/business/media/2009-journalism-pulitzer.html|title=2009 Pulitzer Prizes for Journalism|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|date=20 April 2009 |access-date=5 December 2022}}</ref>


His coverage of the [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican Party]] and the [[Conservative movement in the United States|conservative movement]] for ''The Times'' became the basis for his book, ''Insurgency'', which the [[Crown Publishing Group]] acquired in 2017.<ref name="Crown" /> Peters was one of several Times journalists featured in the 2018 Showtime documentary, ''The Fourth Estate.''<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.sho.com/the-fourth-estate|title = The Fourth Estate &#124; Documentary Series from Liz Garbus on the New York Times - Official Series Site|website=Sho.com}}</ref>
His coverage of the [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican Party]] and the [[Conservative movement in the United States|conservative movement]] for ''The Times'' became the basis for his book, ''Insurgency'', which the [[Crown Publishing Group]] acquired in 2017.{{citation needed|date=December 2022}}<!--Crown Press release does not say this, and is generally poor source.--> Peters was one of several Times journalists featured in the 2018 Showtime documentary, ''The Fourth Estate''.{{citation needed|date=December 2022}}<!--Earlier Sho.com citation does not say this.-->


==Personal life==
== References ==
Peters grew up in the Detroit suburbs and graduated from Brother Rice High School in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. He currently lives in Manhattan with his husband, Brendan Camp,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.mdcsnyc.com/provider/brendan-camp-md|title=Brendan Camp, MD: Dermatologist Midtown East New York, NY|website=Mdcsnyc.com|access-date=7 April 2022}}</ref> a dermatologist and amateur photographer whose work has been published alongside some of Peters' articles for the Times travel section.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/31/travel/in-hawaii-surf-sun-and-snow.html|title = In Hawaii, Surf, Sun and Snow|newspaper = The New York Times|date = 29 May 2015|last1 = Peters|first1 = Jeremy W.}}</ref>

==References==
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== Further reading ==
* {{Cite web|url=https://redef.com/author/55992b9302db973923a4cde6|title=Jeremy W. Peters Archive|publisher=REDEF|language=en|access-date=10 April 2018}} – Redef.com compilation of published work by Peters
* {{Cite news|url=https://www.poynter.org/news/peters-cover-newspapers-magazines-nyt|title=Peters to cover newspapers, magazines for NYT |format=Memo to New York Times staff |last=Romenesko |first=Jim|date=24 May 2010|publisher=Poynter|language=en|access-date=10 April 2018}} – Personal memo to ''NYT'' staff at time of Peters' hiring
* {{Cite web |author=Showtime Staff |url=https://www.sho.com/the-fourth-estate|title=The Fourth Estate: Four Part Docu-Series |work=Sho.com |date=May 27, 2018 |access-date=5 December 2022}} – Programming webpage for this AV work


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Jeremy W. Peters
Born
Alma materUniversity of Michigan[citation needed]
Occupation(s)Reporter, Author
EmployerThe New York Times

Jeremy W. Peters is an American reporter and author for The New York Times.[1][2][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,[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[citation needed] and was reviewed in The Washington Post[5] and The Guardian.[6]

Early life and education

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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] At the university, he wrote for The Michigan Daily.[7]

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[8][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, for its coverage of the sex scandal that resulted in the resignation of Gov. Eliot Spitzer.[9][10]

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

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  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. ^ a b Peters, Jeremy W. & NYT Staff. "Jeremy W. Peters". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved April 10, 2018.
  3. ^ Peters, Jeremy W. & PBS Staff (November 16, 2017). "Jeremy Peters". Washington Week. Retrieved April 10, 2018.
  4. ^ 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.
  5. ^ 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.
  6. ^ Green, Lloyd (February 13, 2022). "Insurgency Review: How Trump Took Over the Republican Party". TheGuardian.com. Retrieved December 5, 2022.
  7. ^ Geva, Shoham (September 28, 2014). "With historical lens, The Michigan Daily enters 125th year". The Michigan Daily. Retrieved August 27, 2024.
  8. ^ 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.
  9. ^ 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."
  10. ^ The NYT (April 20, 2009). "2009 Pulitzer Prizes for Journalism". The New York Times. Retrieved December 5, 2022.

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