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Thomas Peele

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My journalism career began at a weekly newspaper in Bridgehampton, New York in 1983, an endeavor so small, the printing press was powered by a Ford Pinto engine mounted on blocks. From that humble beginning, I’ve worked for seven daily newspapers, starting in Newsday’s sports department, and had scores of stories in others and in magazines and journals. Today, I’m an investigative reporter for the Bay Area News Group, publishers of The Contra Costa Times, The San Jose Mercury News, The Oakland Tribune and other papers surrounding San Francisco, where I specialize in data collection and analysis. I’m also a lecturer at the University of California, Berkeley, Graduate School of Journalism, co-teaching a class on public-records reporting. I’ve ...more

Gearing up for the Newseum

I am getting excited over my upcoming east coast trips around Killing the Messenger. The Newseum in DC on 6/3 is especially interesting because I haven’t been there for years. In fact, it was still in Arlington at the time long before it moved to Washington proper. It now has permanent exhibit to murdered journalists Don Bolles and Chauncey Bailey. Several of us on the Bailey Project helped gather Read more of this blog post »
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Published on May 27, 2012 14:51
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“They were after the one thing so primal that it could make a man forget Allah and act in implosive, desultory ways, no matter what prophecy held for him: sex.”
Thomas Peele, Killing the Messenger: A Story of Radical Faith, Racism's Backlash, and the Assassination of a Journalist

“Reality for a young African American male in Richmond is measured by two things: If a day ends without his either killing someone or lying naked himself on a slab in the Contra Costa County coroner’s office, it is a success.”
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