Peter W. Klein

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Peter W. Klein
Education
Emmys
, and numerous other awards)
Websiteglobalreportingcentre.org

Peter W. Klein (born in Cincinnati, Ohio) is a journalist, documentary filmmaker, professor, and media leader. He was the founder of the Global Reporting Centre,[1] a non-profit organization dedicated to innovating how global investigative journalism is funded, produced and finds audiences. A hallmark of the centre is collaboration, as well as experimentation with new forms of reporting, including empowerment journalism.

Peter is the executive editor of investigations at

PBS Frontline, where his work has been honored with the Emmy for Best Investigative Magazine, as well as the Investigative Reporters and Editors Award and the Sigma Delta Chi Award.[3][4] He was a regular contributor to The New York Times series Retro Report, focusing on national security stories. He previously wrote a column for The Globe and Mail
.

From 2009 to 2010 Klein was the host of the Canadian current affairs interview program The Standard.

Graduate School of Journalism where he continues to serve as a professor and runs the Global Reporting Program,[6]
in which he works with students around the world to collaborate on major reporting projects. His journalism has earned recognition from leading professional organizations, including the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (three Emmy Awards), Society of Professional Journalists (two Sigma Delta Chis), Radio Television Digital News Association (numerous Edward R. Murrows), International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences (Webby Honor) and the Online Journalism Organization (ONA).

Early life

Klein was born to immigrants who fled the Hungarian Revolution of 1956. His father Fred was a knife sharpener and burr hand at the Ford automotive plant in Sharonville, Ohio.[7] His mother Alice was a bookkeeper at a bank. The family spoke Hungarian at home, and Klein maintains dual American and Hungarian citizenship. He was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, and grew up in Miami Beach, Florida.[citation needed]

Career highlight

In the early 1990s, Klein worked as a public radio reporter during the

Eye on People
, and co-created a documentary series called I Witness, where video journalists spent months covering one topic.

In 1996 Klein left CBS to become a producer at ABC News' Law and Justice Unit. There he conducted investigations for

doctor-assisted suicide. In another project, Klein followed a convicted child molester from the day he was released from prison.[10]
Over a six-month period, Klein documented his journey moving back into society, showing the police notifications, the community meetings and the pedophile's life at his mother's house.

In 1999, Klein joined

Muqtada Al-Sadr.[14]

Throughout his career, Klein has reported on public and mental health, earning two Emmy Awards for projects on pandemics, and was co-producer of Unseen Enemy, a feature documentary directed by Janet Tobias about the risks of global pandemics.[15] Other areas of investigation include corruption and national security.

In 2006, Klein launched an investigative series for the

History Channel called Beyond Top Secret. The series received two Emmy nominations in 2007[16] and was featured on a segment of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart.[17]
He was the director and producer of the Emmy-nominated documentary Over a Barrel, an ABC News special project about the business of the oil industry. Klein has also contributed business reporting and documentaries to CNBC and CBS News, and earned several Business News Emmy Award nominations, including for a 60 Minutes investigation into market timing in the mutual fund industry.

In 2009, Klein became the host of a weekly current affairs program on VisionTV and JoyTV in Canada called The Standard. Some of his notable guests have included former Mossad director Efraim Halevy and Nate Phelps,[18] son of the radical anti-gay preacher Fred Phelps.

Klein has written for

The Miami Herald, The Christian Science Monitor
, and numerous other publications during his career.

Teaching

In addition to his professional work, Klein has been teaching journalism since 1998, initially at

PBS Frontline/World
 called "Digital Dumping Ground" in which they traced the path of electronic waste to three continents. The project won the Emmy Award for Outstanding Investigative in a Newsmagazine. The course has developed into a more collaborative Global Reporting Program [24] in which students at universities around the world work together to produce journalism in partnership with major media organizations.

References

  1. ^ Globe & Mail, "UBC journalism director looks to philanthropy to fund reporting centre".
  2. ^ "Backgrounder: Peter Klein | Bullpen". nyujournalismprojects.org. Retrieved 2023-06-03.
  3. ^ "Peter Klein, Author at FRONTLINE". FRONTLINE. Retrieved 2023-06-03.
  4. ^ "Peter Klein". School of Journalism, Writing, and Media. Retrieved 2023-06-03.
  5. ^ The Standard, "The Host – Peter Klein". Archived from the original on 2010-02-11.
  6. ^ "UBC Graduate School of Journalism faculty biography". Archived from the original on 2012-07-12. Retrieved 2010-04-17.
  7. ^ "Ohio primaries: Trump promises a time machine for blue-collar Americans".
  8. ^ "The Survivor". Nightline. Aired January 28, 1999.
  9. ^ "A Public Death". The Province Journal Company. 1997.
  10. ^ "Sex offender next door". Nightline. Aired in 1999.
  11. ^ "60 Minutes – show description, cast and crew". 1968–present.
  12. ^ "The 23rd Annual News and Documentary Emmy Award Nominees Announced By The National Academy of Television Arts And Sciences".
  13. ^ Connolly, Ceci "Senators Criticize HHS Chief On Readiness; Bio-Terrorism Comments 'Will Not Really Help'". The Washington Post. October 4, 2001.
  14. ^ McKay, Mary Jayne "Muqtada Sadr's Battle Against U.S.: Bob Simon Interviews Iraq's Radical Cleric". CBS News. May 28, 2004. 60 Minutes. Aired May 30, 2004.
  15. ^ "CNN Press Release: Unseen Enemy".
  16. ^ "Nominees for the News and Documentary Emmy Awards in 32 categories announced by NATAS". Archived from the original on 2007-12-02.
  17. ^ "– YouTube". YouTube.
  18. ^ Cutbirth, Joe Cutbirth, Joe (June 10, 2010). "Phelp's Son Says "God Hates Fags" Church Could Turn Violent". Huffington Post. The Huffington Post. April 11, 2010.
  19. ^ Klein, Peter W. Klein, Peter W. (January 4, 2007). "My Father's Red Scare". The New York Times. The New York Times. January 4, 2007.
  20. ^ Richards, Jennifer "Background: Peter Klein". Archived from the original on 2010-06-20. Retrieved 2010-04-17.Bullpen
  21. ^ "The Interview reinforces a negative view of US journalists".
  22. ^ "UBC Graduate School of Journalism Faculty Bio". Archived from the original on 2012-07-12. Retrieved 2010-04-17.
  23. ^ "$1m gift creates groundbreaking International Reporting course". UBC Graduate School of Journalism News & Events. April 6, 2009.
  24. ^ "GRP Press Release". 21 September 2016.

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