Jeremy W. Peters

Jeremy W. Peters is an American reporter and author for The New York Times.^{[1][2][independent 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]

Jeremy W. Peters
Born	Royal Oak, Michigan, United States[citation needed]
Alma mater	University of Michigan[citation needed]
Occupation(s)	Reporter, Author
Employer	The New York Times

Peters is gay^[7] and regularly writes on LGBTQ issues.^[8]

Early life and education

Jeremy W. Peters was born in Royal Oak, Michigan.^{[when?][citation needed]}

Peters earned his bachelor's degree in 2002 from the University of Michigan.^[9] He wrote for The Michigan Daily from 1999 to 2002.^[9][10]

Career

Peters began contributing to The New York Times while completing his degree.^{[11][independent 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.^[9] 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.^[12][13]

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]}