Peter Zuckerman

Adjunct Fellow at the Attic Institute

Peter Zuckerman is a non-fiction author and a journalist. He has received some of the most prestigious recognitions in American reporting.

In 2005, he was one of the youngest people to ever win the Livingston Award, the largest, all-media, general reporting prize in America. Among the dozens of other awards his reporting has received is the National Journalism Award , given by the Scripts Howard Foundation for the best newspaper writing in the United States; and the Blethan Award, given for the best journalism in the northwest. PBS profiled Zuckerman in an hour-long documentary, “In a Small Town,” and Harvard University’s Nieman Foundation for Excellence in Journalism profiled Zuckerman as an example of a courageous reporter.

Zuckerman has served as visiting faculty at Poynter Institute, the St. Petersburg, Florida-based think tank for professional journalists, and he has taught journalism at universities and professional seminars. His articles for the Associated Press have appeared in thousands of publications, and, until he left his job to become an author, he was a reporter for The Oregonian.

His book, Buried in the Sky: The Extraordinary Story of Sherpa Climbers on K2's Deadliest Day, is being by published in the summer of 2012 by W.W. Norton & Company.