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Peter Eisner

Peter Eisner

Adjunct Lecturer

Peter Eisner teaches the graduate seminar on national security at Medill’s Washington, D.C., campus. 

Eisner is an award-winning author and foreign correspondent. He was correspondent and consulting producer at the PBS programs Newshour Weekend and World Focus and was nominated for a News and Documentary Emmy in 2010. 

Eisner has served as deputy foreign editor and Washington, D.C, political editor with the Washington Post. 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 and was an early member of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists.