Eric Pape has written and edited on five continents. His news, investigative, and narrative writing and editing has appeared in The Atavist, The New York Times, Rolling Stone, USA Today, Fast Company, The Guardian, Vibe, and dozens of other publications in Asia, Europe, Latin America and the US. As a Paris-based correspondent for Newsweek, he reported across Europe, while also engaging in crisis reporting on immigration, hunger, environmental disasters, and post-war instability in Africa and the Middle East. 

He reported extensively in Southeast Asia on politics, human rights, corruption, and strife, and in South America on the U.S. drug war. Pape was a frequent contributor to Foreign Policy, the Daily Beast, and Spin magazine, as well as the L.A. Times Arts and Entertainment section and the Sunday magazine. 

He is a correspondent for the international news channel France 24, and previously appeared as a reporter, analyst, or commentator on Al Jazeera, NPR, MSNBC, the BBC, CNN, Fox News, and BBC en Español, among others. As deputy editor of Pierre Omidyar’s nonprofit media Civil Beat, in Hawaii, Pape was tasked with maximizing the impact of watchdog and investigative reporting and guiding special projects — including on transformative education, the cost of living, and the history of electricity in the islands. 

In addition to producing journalism and teaching, Pape is a consultant for nonprofit media such as Capital & Main on partnerships and republishing, audience expansion, editorial vision, and other strategies. 

He also 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, as well as a recipient of the Charles M. Rappleye Investigative Journalism Award. He has co-authored two journalistic graphic novels and has worked extensively in Spanish and French.