Aaron Glantz
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Aaron Glantz (born August 10, 1977)[1][2] is a two-time Peabody Award-winning[3][4] journalist and Pulitzer Prize finalist[5] known for producing journalism with impact. Projects he’s led have sparked new laws that curtailed the opioid epidemic, improved care for U.S. military veterans, and kept the FBI’s international war crimes office open.[6] They have also prompted dozens of Congressional hearings and investigations by the FBI, DEA, and United Nations. His reporting has appeared in nearly every major media outlet, including the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, NPR, NBC News, ABC News, Reveal and the PBS Newshour, where his investigations have received three national Emmy nominations.[7]
A former war correspondent who has reported from a dozen countries, including Iraq, Glantz has been a fellow at the DART Center for Journalism and Trauma at Columbia University,[8] a Rosalynn Carter Fellow for Mental Health Journalism at the Carter Center,[9] a JSK Journalism Fellow at Stanford University,[10] and a visiting professor at the University of California Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism[11]. He is author of four books, among them Homewreckers (HarperCollins, 2019),[12] which probed hedge fund profiteering off the 2008 financial crisis. A sought after speaker and teacher, Glantz is known for developing talent across all media platforms. As an executive-in-residence at the Maynard Institute for Journalism Education he mentors a new generation of journalists of color.[13]
In September 2024, Aaron will begin a year-long fellowship[14] at the Center for the Advanced Study of the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University, where he plans to incubate a new initiative to incubate a new initiative that builds resilience for investigative journalists, human rights advocates, and others dedicated to social change.
Career
[edit]In November 2002, when the Anglo-American invasion of Iraq appeared imminent, Glantz traveled to Istanbul to cover regional reaction to the crisis. When Saddam Hussein was overthrown on April 9, 2003, Glantz traveled to Baghdad as an unembedded journalist to cover Iraqi experience of U.S. occupation.[15] He spent parts of three years in the county, covering the Abu Ghraib[16] prison scandal, the attack on radical cleric Muqtada al-Sadr,[17] and the April 2004 U.S. military siege of Fallujah.[18] He also spent considerable time reporting in the Kurdistan region of Northern Iraq.[19]
Since returning from his last visit to Iraq, Glantz has devoted considerable attention to the damaging effects of the war on American veterans focusing on the difficulties that veterans have experienced in their efforts to obtain services from the United States Department of Veterans Affairs.[20]
He has worked at the Center for Investigative Reporting since 2012, when it merged with The Bay Citizen, a non-profit media outlet that produced the Bay Area pages of The New York Times. Before joining The Bay Citizen in October 2010, Glantz spent a year at New America Media, the ethnic media newswire, when he covered the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act (better known as the stimulus).[21] At New America Media, Glantz also administered a national fellowship program for ethnic media journalists covering the stimulus and conducted investigative journalism trainings in eight cities as partnership with Pro Publica and Investigative Reporters and Editors.[22]
During the course of his career, Glantz has also reported internationally in a dozen countries across Europe, Asia, and the Middle East.
Awards and fellowships
[edit]Glantz's reporting has been honored with numerous awards, including a George Foster Peabody Award, two Military Reporters and Editors awards, and an award for from the Online News Association. He also received a national investigative reporting award from the Society of Professional Journalists for his coverage of veterans' suicides.[23] and was nominated for a national News and Documentary Emmy Award for his reporting on narcotics.[24]
He has been a Rosalynn Carter Fellow for Mental Health Journalism at the Carter Center,[25] a DART Center Fellow for Journalism and Trauma at Columbia University Journalism School,[26] and a fellow at the Hechinger Institute on Education and the Media and Columbia University Teachers College.[27]
In 2011, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors issued a proclamation to honor to Glantz for his "extraordinary efforts as a critically acclaimed author... who through word and deed is saving lives."
Books on the Iraq War
[edit]In 2005 Aaron Glantz published his book How America Lost Iraq (Tarcher/Penguin), in which he gives a voice to the Iraqis and tells how the U.S. government squandered, through a series of blunders and brutalities, the goodwill with which most Iraqis greeted the American invasion and the elation they felt at the fall of Saddam Hussein.
In 2008 the book Winter Soldier: Iraq & Afghanistan (Haymarket) was published edited by Glantz in collaboration with Iraq Veterans Against the War. The book dovetails with the Winter Soldier: Iraq & Afghanistan event detailing allegations of military misconduct among U.S. soldiers in Iraq.[28]
In 2009, Glantz published "The War Comes Home: Washington's Battle Against America's Veterans" (UC Press), the first book to systematically document the government's failure to care for returning soldiers coming home from Iraq and Afghanistan.[29]
Personal life
[edit]Glantz lives in San Francisco with his wife, journalist Ngoc Nguyen and their two children. His father is Stanton Glantz, Ph.D., a leading researcher and activist on the health effects of tobacco.[30][31] He is a third-generation San Franciscan.
Bibliography
[edit]- Aaron Glantz (2019). Homewreckers: How a gang of Wall Street kingpins, hedge fund magnates, crooked banks, and vulture capitalists suckered millions out of their homes and demolished the American dream. Custom House. ISBN 978-0-06-286954-8. LCCN 2019030888. Wikidata Q119791024.
- Aaron Glantz (2009). The War Comes Home: Washington's Battle against America's Veterans. University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-25612-5. LCCN 2008035579. Wikidata Q119791767.
- Aaron Glantz (2008). Winter Soldier: Iraq and Afghanistan: Eyewitness Accounts of the Occupations. Haymarket Books. ISBN 978-1-931859-65-3. LCCN 2008036840. Wikidata Q119791718.
- Aaron Glantz (2005). How America Lost Iraq. Penguin Group. ISBN 1-58542-426-9. LCCN 2005043941. Wikidata Q119791807.
References
[edit]- ^ California Birth Index, 1905-1995 (Provo, UT: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.), 2005.
- ^ U.S. Public Records Index Vol 2 (Provo, UT: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.), 2010.
- ^ "Aaron Glantz - Reveal: The VA's Opiate Overload - 2013 Peabody Award Acceptance Speech" December 15, 2014
- ^ "PBS NewsHour Named Recipient of Two Peabody Awards for "The Plastic Problem" and "Kept Out"". PBS NewsHour. Retrieved 2024-06-17.
- ^ Pulitzer Prizes (April 2018). "Finalist: Aaron Glantz and Emmanuel Martinez of Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting, Emeryville, Calif. (in collaboration with Associated Press, PRX and the PBS NewsHour)". Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved June 17, 2024.
- ^ "Aaron Glantz, JSK Fellow, retrieved April 3, 2016"
- ^ "Aaron Glantz | Aaron Glantz". Retrieved 2024-06-17.
- ^ Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma. "List of Dart Ochberg Fellowship Alumni". Retrieved June 17, 2024.
- ^ "The Rosalynn Carter Fellowships For Mental Health Journalism 2008-2009". The Carter Center. Retrieved 2024-06-17.
- ^ "Class of 2016". John S. Knight Journalism Fellowships. Retrieved 2024-06-17.
- ^ "Aaron Glantz". UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. Retrieved 2024-06-17.
- ^ Glantz, Aaron (2019). Homewreckers: How a Gang of Wall Street Kingpins, Hedge Fund Magnates, Crooked Banks, and Vulture Capitalists Suckered Millions Out of Their Homes and Demolished the American Dream (1 ed.). HarperCollins. ISBN 978-0062869531.
- ^ Staff, Maynard Institute (2022-02-16). "Peabody Award-winning journalist Aaron Glantz returns as Maynard 200 executive-in-residence for investigative storytelling". Maynard Institute (MIJE). Retrieved 2024-06-17.
- ^ "CASBS Announces 2024-25 Fellows | Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences". casbs.stanford.edu. 2024-03-07. Retrieved 2024-06-17.
- ^ "War and Life in Iraq, The National Radio Project, August 9, 2006"
- ^ "Abu Ghraib: New Warden Same Prison, Democracy Now!, April 30, 2004"
- ^ "U.S. Assassinates Two Shi'ite Clerics, Democracy Now!, May 5, 2004"
- ^ "Massacre in Fallujah Democracy Now!, April 14, 2004"
- ^ "Candidates on Kurdistan Slate Includes Former Ba'athists Democracy Now!, January 31, 2005"
- ^ "Aaron Glantz: The War Comes Home, Speech in Santa Barbara, CA, June 1, 2009"
- ^ "New America Media stories by Aaron Glantz"
- ^ ""New America Media Stimulus Watch"". Archived from the original on 2012-03-23. Retrieved 2012-03-29.
- ^ ""Bay Citizen Receives Sigma Delta Chi Award"". Archived from the original on 2011-05-26. Retrieved 2012-03-29.
- ^ "Nominees for the 35th Annual News Documentary Emmy Awards"
- ^ "You Saved My Life: A Reason to Keep Reporting"
- ^ "Announcing the 2011 Ochberg Fellows"
- ^ "Covering America Covering Community Colleges: A Fellowship for Journalists" Archived April 15, 2012, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Jamail, Dahr (2008-09-19). "'We blew her to pieces'". Asia Times Online. Archived from the original on 2008-11-21. Retrieved 2008-09-20.
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- ^ "Cancer Control Program".
- ^ "Faculty Profile". Archived from the original on 2006-09-03. Retrieved 2007-07-13.
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