Peter eisner biography

Peter Eisner, an award-winning foreign correspondent and author, has served as editor and reporter at The Washington Post, Newsday and The Associated Press.
Peter Eisner, an award-winning foreign correspondent, has been an editor and reporter at the Washington Post, Newsday and the Associated Press.
Peter Eisner, a veteran foreign correspondent, has been deputy foreign editor and Washington, D.C, political editor with the Washington Post, foreign editor.

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I've written in recent years about World War II and unsung heroes of the war who deserve more recognition for their valor, for their patriotism and basic decency. I was inspired by personal history -- my dad was a U.S. Navy officer during the War and never talked much about it. These books are in part a quest to understand what the war was like for the young men and women who faced danger and an uncertain future. FREEDOM LINE: An American bomber pilot is shot down over occupied Europe in 1943 and evades capture with the help of a group of young women and men, out to resist the Nazis; THE POPE'S LAST CRUSADE: an American Jesuit journalist answers Pope Pius XI's call in a last-ditch effort to challenge Hitler, Mussolini and antisemitism; MACARTHUR'S SPIES: An American singer caught in the Philippines at the start of World War II spies on Japanese officers from her sultry Manila night club. My most recent book, written with Michael D'Antonio, is a departure, back to my journalist roots. Why: I'm still in search of patriotism and basic decency. We live in

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Eisner, Peter (Norman) 1950-

PERSONAL: Born August 27, 1950, in Jersey City, NJ; married Musha Salinas, August 27, 1981; children: Isabel, Marina. Education: Rutgers University, B.A., 1972.

ADDRESSES: Home—Bethesda, MD. Agent—c/o Author Mail, William Morrow, 10 East 53rd St., 7th Floor, New York, NY 10022.

CAREER: Register-Star, Hudson, NY, reporter, 1974-75; Poughkeepsie Journal, Poughkeepsie, NY, reporter, 1975-76; Associated Press (news service), newsman in New York, NY, 1978-79, correspondent in Brasilia, Brazil, 1979-81, bureau chief in Caracas, Venezuela, 1982, news editor for Mexico and Central America in Mexico City, Mexico, 1982-83; Newsday, New York, NY, deputy foreign editor, 1984-85, senior foreign editor, 1985-89, senior correspondent, 1989-94; NewsCom, Coral Gables, FL, managing director, 1994-98; Center for Public Integrity, Washington, DC, managing director, 1999-2001; Washington Post, Washington, DC, deputy foreign editor, 2003—.

MEMBER: Interamerican Press Association (member, board of directors, 1988-94).

WRITINGS:

(Editor and translator

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PETER EISNER, an award-winning foreign correspondent, has been an editor and reporter at the Washington Post, Newsday and the Associated Press. Eisner was correspondent and consulting producer at the PBS programs Newshour Weekend and World Focus and was nominated for a News and Documentary Emmy Award in 2010.

Eisner served as deputy foreign editor and Washington, D.C, political editor with the Washington Post from 2003-2007. Prior to that he was foreign editor and senior foreign correspondent of Newsday, and received the InterAmerican Press Association Award for distinguished reporting on drug trafficking in Latin America. He was a bureau chief and correspondent for The Associated Press in the United States and Latin America. In 1994, he founded NewsCom, an online international news and photo transmission agency, later sold to The Chicago Tribune.

From 1999 to 2001, Eisner was the managing director of the Center for Public Integrity, a Washington-based watchdog organization. There he founded an online publication, publicI.org, which won national investigative reporting awards i