Perri Peltz
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Perri Peltz is an Emmy-winning documentary filmmaker, journalist and public health advocate. Most recently, Perri created the documentary news series Axios on HBO with Matthew O’Neill. Perri & Matthew also co-directed and produced the 2019 HBO Documentary, Alternate Endings: Six New Ways to Die in America. Previously, Perri directed the HBO documentary, Warning: This Drug May Kill You, about the opioid addiction epidemic. She produced the HBO documentary Risky Drinking and co-directed A Conversation About Growing Up Black as part of the “Conversation on Race” series for The New York Times Op-Docs. Other films include HBO's Remembering the Artist: Robert De Niro, Sr. and Prison Dogs. Perri also hosts “The Perri Peltz Show” with Matthew O'Neill on SiriusXM. She was awarded a doctorate in Public Health from Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health in 2023. She was previously an award-winning broadcast journalist for NBC, ABC, and CNN.
Career
Peltz worked at WNBC from 1987 to 1996 where she co-anchored Weekend Today in New York with Ken Taylor, and weekend editions of News 4 New York at 6 and 11 with Ralph Penza.
Peltz joined Dateline NBC for two years. During that period, she often anchored live news coverage on NBC's 24-hour cable news television channel MSNBC.
She then worked for ABC's 20/20 for two years until she moved to CNN where she stayed until 2002.
Peltz left CNN to produce a feature film,
Peltz then went to work for the
In 2005 she rejoined
On 10 September 2007, WNBC cancelled News 4 You. Peltz continued to report both for WNBC and for NBC Network on people who were making a difference.
Peltz co-produced and co-directed the documentary
Education
Peltz graduated from
Charitable work
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