Peter Perl

Peter Perl is the Director of Newsroom Training & Professional Development at The Washington Post. Prior to taking this position in 2004, he was an award-winning staff writer of The Washington Post Magazine. He has worked at the Post since 1981, as a general assignment reporter covering Washington and as the newspaper’s labor reporter, writing about issues in the American workplace. He served nine years as an assignment editor and Deputy Maryland Editor on the newspaper’s Metropolitan staff and as an articles editor on the Post Sunday Magazine. Since 1996, he has written lengthy Magazine pieces on a variety of topics including in-depth profiles of prominent figures in politics, government, business and sports, as well as investigative stories on food safety, urban education, espionage, professional sports, crime and police performance, the Secret Service and other subjects. Since 1990, he has served on Post newsroom committees on career development, hiring, and racial/ethnic diversity. In 2001, he was elected to the governing Executive Council of the Washington-Baltimore Newspaper Guild, representing 1,400 Post employees. Prior to the Post, he was a reporter at the Providence Journal-Bulletin and at Connecticut Magazine. Mr. Perl is the recipient of more than 35 journalism awards from the Associated Press, the Newspaper Guild, the American Bar Association, the Society of Professional Journalists, the National Association of Black Journalists, the Education Writers Association, the Association for Retarded Citizens, the AFL-CIO, and other organizations. He has taught journalism at Georgetown University in Washington and at the Poynter Institute in St. Petersburg, FL. His work has appeared in Reader’s Digest, Columbia Journalism Review, Working Woman and other publications, and he has appeared on National Public Radio’s All Things Considered, and on MSNBC’s The News with Brian Williams.