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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]
Peters is gay[7] and regularly writes on LGBTQ issues.[8]
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]
^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.
^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."
"Jeremy W. Peters Archive". REDEF. Retrieved April 10, 2018. – Redef.com compilation of published work by Peters
Romenesko, Jim (May 24, 2010). "Peters to cover newspapers, magazines for NYT"(Memo to New York Times staff). Poynter. Retrieved April 10, 2018. – Personal memo to NYT staff at time of Peters' hiring
