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About Peter Copeland

Peter Copeland is a journalist, author and consultant to media companies and news organizations.

The former Washington bureau chief for the E.W. Scripps Company, Copeland was the editor and general manager of Scripps Howard News Service, which distributed stories and photos to newspapers and digital media around the world.

He has published five books.

Blog

Interview: Foreign Press Correspondents USA

“I finally decided on three principles or core values of quality journalism: speed, accuracy, and fairness…” Read the full interview.

In Maria Hinojosa’s New Memoir, Once I Was You, A Journalist Covers Her Own Story

Journalist Maria Hinojosa has written two books in one: her own deeply personal story of coming to the United States from Mexico as a baby, and the long history of U.S. rejection and oppression of immigrants just like her.

WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING ABOUT FINDING THE NEWS

Peter Copeland knows where the bodies are buried… He’s a journalist who got it early and got it right… His voice matters now and to the next generation of news.”

Ken Doctor
Media Analyst, Newsonomics

More Reviews

Peter Copeland has done it all – chased fires, dogged politicians at city hall, and covered the Pentagon; and bylines form 30 countries, often written while in personal peril. Vivid and revealing, inspiring, Finding the News is meant for anyone who wants to understand the craft of reporting.”

John Maxwell Hamilton
Founding dean, Manship School of Mass Communication
Louisiana State University

Copeland provides a compelling tale of a young reporter who uses smarts and wits to learn the ropes of newspapering during the Golden Age of American journalism, eventually rising to head a major news bureau in Washington, DC.

Zita Arocha
Professor of Practice and Director of Borderzine at the University of Texas El Paso