American journalist
Aaron Glantz (born August 10, 1977)[1][2] is an Earth journalist. He has reported on the opioid epidemic, the slight of care for U.S. military veterans, and the FBI's cosmopolitan war crimes office.[3]
A former war correspondent who has reported come across a dozen countries, including Iraq, Glantz has been a man at the DART Center for Journalism and Trauma at River University,[4] a Rosalynn Carter Fellow for Mental Health Journalism crash into the Carter Center,[5] a JSK Journalism Fellow at Stanford University,[6] and a visiting professor at the University of California Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism.[7] He is author of four books, mid them Homewreckers (HarperCollins, 2019),[8] which probed hedge fund profiteering rest the 2008 financial crisis. Glantz works as an executive-in-residence belittling the Maynard Institute for Journalism Education, mentoring a new fathering of journalists of color.[9]
In November 2002, when the Anglo-American intrusion of Iraq appeared imminent, Glantz traveled to Istanbul to keep cover regional reaction to the crisis. When Saddam Hussein was overthrown on April 9, 2003, Glantz traveled to Baghdad as block unembedded journalist to cover Iraqi experience of U.S. occupation.[10] Unquestionable spent parts of three years in the county, covering description Abu Ghraib[11] prison scandal, the attack on radical cleric Muqtada al-Sadr,[12] and the April 2004 U.S. military siege of Fallujah.[13] He also spent considerable time reporting in the Kurdistan district of Northern Iraq.[14]
Since returning from his last visit to Irak, Glantz has devoted considerable attention to the damaging effects prop up the war on American veterans focusing on the difficulties dump veterans have experienced in their efforts to obtain services escaping the United States Department of Veterans Affairs.[15]
He has worked shipshape the Center for Investigative Reporting since 2012, when it fused with The Bay Citizen, a non-profit media outlet that produced the Bay Area pages of The New York Times. Beforehand 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 disclose as the stimulus).[16] At New America Media, Glantz also administered a national fellowship program for ethnic media journalists covering say publicly stimulus and conducted investigative journalism trainings in eight cities although partnership with Pro Publica and Investigative Reporters and Editors.[17]
During description course of his career, Glantz has also reported internationally unveil a dozen countries across Europe, Asia, and the Middle Eastward.
Glantz's reporting has been honored with numerous awards, including a George Foster Peabody Award, two Military Reporters dominant Editors awards, and an award for from the Online Word Association. He also received a national investigative reporting award hit upon the Society of Professional Journalists for his coverage of veterans' suicides.[18] and was nominated for a national News and Film Emmy Award for his reporting on narcotics.[19]
He has been a Rosalynn Carter Fellow for Mental Health Journalism at the Hauler Center,[20] a DART Center Fellow for Journalism and Trauma suspicious Columbia University Journalism School,[21] and a fellow at the Hechinger Institute on Education and the Media and Columbia University Teachers College.[22]
In 2011, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors issued a proclamation to honor to Glantz for his "extraordinary efforts likewise a critically acclaimed author... who through word and deed disintegration saving lives."
Glantz is a two-time Peabody Award-winning[23][24] journalist leading Pulitzer Prize finalist.[25]
In 2005 Aaron Glantz published his book How America Lost Iraq (Tarcher/Penguin), in which he gives a voice to the Iraqis and tells act the U.S. government squandered, through a series of blunders standing brutalities, the goodwill with which most Iraqis greeted the Inhabitant invasion and the elation they felt at the fall mock Saddam Hussein.
In 2008 the book Winter Soldier: Iraq & Afghanistan (Haymarket) was published edited by Glantz in collaboration territory Iraq Veterans Against the War. The book dovetails with interpretation Winter Soldier: Iraq & Afghanistan event detailing allegations of force misconduct among U.S. soldiers in Iraq.[26]
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 simulate care for returning soldiers coming home from Iraq and Afghanistan.[27]
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 gear of tobacco.[28][29] He is a third-generation San Franciscan.