Tom Gjelten
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Gjelten and his colleagues at NPR received a Peabody Award in 2004 for "The War in Iraq".
Early life and education
Gjelten is a graduate of the University of Minnesota and began his professional career as a public school teacher at the North Haven Community School, North Haven, Maine, and as a freelance writer.[1]
Family
Gjelten resides in Arlington, Virginia, with his wife, Martha Raddatz, the Chief Global Affairs Correspondent for ABC News.
Works
- A Nation of Nations: A Great American Immigration Story (Simon & Schuster, 2015), Template:ISBN
- Bacardi and the Long Fight for Cuba: The Biography of a Cause (Viking, 2008) Template:ISBN
- Professionalism in War Reporting: A Correspondent's View (Carnegie Corporation, 1998) ASIN B0006FCMB4
- Sarajevo Daily: A City and Its Newspaper Under Siege (HarperCollins, 1995) Template:ISBN
- Contributor to Crimes of War: What the Public Should Know (W. W. Norton, 1999. Revised (2.0) 2007) Template:ISBN[2]
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- Living people
- American radio reporters and correspondents
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- American war correspondents
- American military writers
- American political writers
- NPR personalities
- University of Minnesota alumni
- Journalists from Arlington County, Virginia
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- 1948 births
- People from North Haven, Maine
- 20th-century American journalists