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Peter Laufer is an independent journalist,〔Neue Zürcher Zeitung interview, Nov. 11, 2008〕 broadcaster and documentary filmmaker〔(Exodus to Berlin )〕 working in traditional and new media. He is the James Wallace Chair in Journalism at the University of Oregon School of Journalism and Communication.〔(Peter Laufer — School of Journalism and Communication )〕 ==Career== While a globe-trotting correspondent for NBC News,〔(Peter Laufer )〕 Laufer also reported, wrote, and produced several documentaries and special event broadcasts for the network that dealt with social issues, including the first nationwide live radio discussion of the HIV/AIDS epidemic. ''Healing the Wounds'' was an analysis of ongoing problems afflicting Vietnam War veterans. ''Hunger in America'' documented malnutrition in our contemporary society. ''A Loss for Words'' exposed the magnitude and impact of illiteracy in America. ''Cocaine Hunger'' was the first network broadcast to literally trace the drug from the jungles of Bolivia to the streets of America, and alerted the nation to the avalanching crises caused by the consumption of crack cocaine. ''Nightmare Abroad'' was a pioneering study of Americans incarcerated overseas.〔(Previous Award Winners - Long Island University )〕 Laufer's first major exposure to immigration issues dates to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1980 when he reported from Afghan refugee camps for NBC Radio. Almost 10 years later, as the Iron Curtain began to rise at the Berlin Wall, which he reported for CBS Radio, Laufer went on to cover immigration from Western Europe, and from Mexico to the United States. In 2002, Laufer's documentary film, "Exodus to Berlin", and the ensuing book of the same title,〔(Exodus to Berlin (Ivan R. Dee, Publisher) )〕 told the story of Germany's attempt to rebuild its Jewish population by providing sanctuary and financial support to Soviet-era Russian Jews who came over the border from Russia and Ukraine to Germany. Laufer's books include ''The Question of Consent: Innocence and Complicity'' in the Glen Ridge Rape Case. It is the study of the rape of a mentally challenged schoolgirl by a gang of her classmates, and the effect of the case of the health of the local community. He's written works on the fall of Communism in Europe (titled ''Iron Curtain Rising''), a severe criticism of contemporary talk radio, ''Inside Talk Radio: America's Voice Or Just Hot Air'',〔San Francisco Chronicle review, Nov. 18, 2007〕 and a book version of the documentary about Americans in prisons overseas, also titled ''Nightmare Abroad''. Another of his books, ''Made in Mexico'', published by the National Geographic Society and illustrated by his sister Susan L. Roth,〔(Susan L. Roth )〕 deals, in a juvenile environment, with cross border issues between California and Mexico. Laufer has written ''Exodus to Berlin'', a book version of his study of the resurgence of the Jewish population in Germany and the concurrent rise of right-wing violence, and ''Wetback Nation: The Case for Opening the Mexican-American Border''. With Markos Kounalakis he's written ''Hope Is a Tattered Flag'', based on conversations from ''Washington Monthly on the Radio'', the nationally syndicated radio show they co-anchor.〔(The Washington Monthly )〕 Another of their Washington Monthly projects is ''Calexico'' a series of radio documentaries celebrating the California-Mexico borderlands, and supported by a grant from the California Council for the Humanities.〔(PRX » Series » Calexico: The True Story of Life in the California Borderlands )〕 The research for that project developed into Laufer's book ''¡Calexico!: True Lives of the Borderlines'' (published by the University of Arizona Press, 2011). Laufer questions the veracity of organic food provenance with his 2014 book ''Organic: A Journalist's Quest to Discover the Truth Behind Food Labeling'' (Lyons Press). Also published in 2014 is his ''Slow News: A Manifesto for the Critical News Consumer'' (Oregon State University Press). His experiences with ''Mission Rejected'' resulted in a natural history trilogy: ''The Dangerous World of Butterflie''s,〔(Peter Laufer - The Daily Show with Jon Stewart - 06/17/09 - Video Clip | Comedy Central )〕 ''Forbidden Creatures'', and ''No Animals Were Harmed During the Writing of this Book''.〔(Peter Laufer: Story is all that counts — Etude )〕 Peter Laufer was the charter anchor of the radio program ''National Geographic World Talk'', a nationally syndicated show he created. He hosts ''The Peter Laufer Show Sundays'', which originated on the Pacifica radio station KPFA,〔(Frisco Vista » Laufer/KPFA recap )〕 moved to the San Francisco Clear Channel station Green 960,〔feed://www.green960.com/podcast/laufer.xml〕 and on to Sonoma County's KOWS. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Peter Laufer」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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