Eric Pape has written and edited on five continents, including The Atavist, The New York Times, The Guardian, Rolling Stone, Fast Company, USA Today, Vibe, and dozens of other publications in the U.S., Asia, Europe, and Latin America. As a Paris-based correspondent for Newsweek, he reported and wrote from across Europe, while also engaging in crisis reporting in Africa and the Middle East. 

He has written extensively in Southeast Asia on politics, human rights, corruption, and strife, and in South America on the U.S. drug war. Pape has been a frequent contributor to the L.A. Times Arts and Entertainment section and in long form to its Sunday magazine, Foreign Policy, the Daily Beast, and Spin magazine. He has often appeared on television and radio as a reporter, analyst, and commentator, including on Al Jazeera, MSNBC, the BBC, CNN, Fox News, BBC en Español, and was a U.S. correspondent for the French television news channel, France 24. As deputy editor of Pierre Omidyar’s nonprofit media Civil Beat, in Hawaii, Pape was tasked with sharpening journalism, driving innovation, guiding special projects, and otherwise maximizing the impact of watchdog and investigative reporting. 

In addition to producing journalism and teaching, Pape is a consultant for nonprofit media on editorial vision and strategies, media partnerships, co-publishing, and staff diversification. 

He consulted on the Armenian feature film Amerikatsi (2023) and was a story advisor on the Peabody Award-winning documentary, Who Killed Chea Vichea? He is an alum of the John S. Knight Fellowship at Stanford University and the McGraw Business Journalism Fellowship and a recipient of the Charles M. Rappleye Investigative Journalism Award. He has co-authored two journalistic graphic novels.