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Eric Pape is an award-winning reporter and editor whose work as an international correspondent has taken him to five continents. His news reporting, investigative and narrative writing, and editing have 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 U.S.

As a Paris-based correspondent for Newsweek, he reported across Europe on politics, terrorism, business and tech trends, diplomacy, cultural integration, popular culture and the arts. In that work, Pape also reported on military conflicts and environmental and immigration-related crises in Africa and the Middle East.

Pape has been a frequent contributor to Foreign Policy and The Daily Beast, and an international correspondent for Spin magazine, as well as writing on the film and music industries from overseas for the Los Angeles Times Arts and Entertainment section. For the Los Angeles Times Sunday magazine, he wrote numerous long-form pieces, including on the moral quandaries faced by convicted terrorists and their attorneys, and on exile communities in various parts of the U.S.

For several years, Pape was a Los Angeles-based correspondent for the international news channel France 24, and has appeared as a reporter, analyst and commentator on Al Jazeera, NPR, MSNBC, the BBC, CNN, Fox News and BBC en español. As deputy editor of Pierre Omidyar’s Hawaii-based nonprofit media organization Civil Beat, Pape guided watchdog and investigative reporting and wrote and edited award-winning special projects on the high cost of living in the state.

At USC’s Annenberg School for Journalism, Pape teaches graduate-level courses in narrative writing and investigative and foreign affairs reporting. Pape is also a consultant for nonprofit media, arranging the republication around the country of watchdog and investigative articles thousands of times each year.

Pape was a script consultant on the Armenian feature film Amerikatsi (2023), which was shortlisted for an International Film Oscar, and was a story advisor on the Peabody Award-winning documentary Who Killed Chea Vichea? He is an alum of both the JSK Journalism 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.

Narrative and investigative work: ericpape.journoportfolio.com

Arts & Entertainment work: https://www.clippings.me/users/ericpape