Richard Miniter

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Richard Miniter (born 1967) is the author of two New York Times best selling books, Losing bin Laden and Shadow War and is an internationally recognized expert on terrorism. He is also a fellow at the Hudson Institute, Washington Editor of PajamasMedia.com and a former editorial page writer for The Wall Street Journal Europe.

He has been published in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal and Christian Science Monitor, including The Atlantic Monthly, The New Republic, National Review and Reader's Digest, among others. In addition, his articles have appeared in newspapers throughout Europe, Asia and Australia.

After graduating from Vassar College in 1990, Miniter worked for the American Spectator, became a policy analyst at the Competitive Enterprise Institute and was a senior writer at Insight, a national weekly magazine published by The Washington Times.

Miniter made two forays into public broadcasting. He was associate producer of the PBS series Technopolitics, a weekly program covering the politics of science, technology and the environment from 1991 to 1993. In June 1996, he was executive producer of Enterprising Women, a national weekly public radio series devoted to women executives and entrepreneurs. The series, distributed by the National Public Radio Satellite System, was hailed as "inspirational" by CNN and described as "the radio equivalent of the female Forbes magazine" by the New York Post. Despite a loyal audience estimated at five million and carriage in eight of the top ten markets, the series ended in June 1997 due to sponsorship difficulties.

From 1996 to 2000, Miniter reported for newspapers and magazines from Western Europe, sub-Saharan Africa, and Southeast Asia. He traveled with rebels into war zones in Uganda, Sudan and Burma and along smugglers' routes in Laos, Thailand and Cambodia.

Hired by renowned Wall Street Journal editor Robert Bartley in 2000, Miniter was sent to Brussels as an editorial page writer at The Wall Street Journal Europe and editor of its weekly "Business Europe" column. He also wrote a weekly column, "The Visible Hand", for The Wall Street Journal's OpinionJournal.com. This column was cited by Forbes, Slate, and others.

While at the Journal, Random House published Miniter's first book, The Myth of Market Share. The book argues that market share does not tend to generate above average profits. Executives should not pursue mergers based on size alone and regulators should not bother to stop them. The Myth of Market Share has been translated into Chinese, Hebrew, German, Japanese, Italian, and Spanish. The Washington Post said it was a "must read for business executives."

Shortly after the September 11 attacks, Miniter left the Journal to join the investigative reporting team of the Sunday Times, Britain's largest quality paper. Miniter co-wrote a four part series, "The Road to Ground Zero". The series won first prize by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists.

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[edit] Media appearances

Miniter appears regularly on television and radio to discuss al Qaeda and global terrorism. He has appeared on every major American cable news network including CNN, CNBC, C-Span, Fox News, and MSNBC—nearly 200 times in the past three years. He has been featured on Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer, The O'Reilly Factor, Hannity & Colmes, Kudlow and Company and Special Report with Brit Hume, among others.

He has been a featured guest on more 1000 talk radio shows, including almost every top ten program. He has often appeared on overseas television networks including ABC (Australia), Al Jazeera (Qatar), CBC (Canada), ITV and Sky News (U.K), LBC (Lebanon), and RAI (Italy), and radio programs in Australia, Belgium, France, Ireland, and Italy.

[edit] Public speaking

A widely sought speaker, Miniter has given speeches across America, Europe and Asia, addressing audiences of executives, students, judges, lawyers and government officials. He has delivered speeches on terrorism at the Royal Military College in Brussels, at the Conservative Political Action Committee in Washington, at the World Journalism Institute in New York, a business summit in Singapore and the Hong Kong Foreign Correspondents Club.

[edit] Education

Miniter graduated from Vassar College with a degree in philosophy in 1990. His thesis was on the German classical liberal Wilhelm von Humboldt's The Limits of State Action, the work that inspired John Stuart Mill to write On Liberty.

[edit] Books

In early 2002, Miniter was contracted to write a book that became Losing bin Laden. He would spend the next 18 months reporting from Khartoum, Cairo, Frankfurt, Hamburg, London, Paris and Washington to offer an authoritative account of the bin Laden menace during the Clinton years. It became a New York Times bestseller, peaking at no. 9 in September 2003. Losing bin Laden was cited on NBC's Meet the Press by host Tim Russert. The book was also praised in columns by George F. Will, Steve Forbes and Robert Novak.

Miniter's next book was drawn from on the ground reporting in Iraq, Kuwait, Egypt, Sudan, Hong Kong, Singapore and the Philippines. Shadow War: The Untold Story of How America is Winning the War on Terror became his second New York Times bestseller, debuting at no.7.

Miniter's latest book is entitled Disinformation: 22 Media Myths That Undermine the War on Terror. Based on exclusive interviews and official documents, the book challenges many widely held notions: that there is no evidence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, that there is no evidence of a connection between Saddam Hussein and al Qaeda, that Bin Laden was trained or financed by the CIA in the 1980s, that Halliburton profiteered in Iraq, that profiling Arabs at airports would stop terrorism, and that the U.S.-Mexico border is an open door for Al Qaeda.

[edit] Personal

Miniter lives in Arlington, Virginia up the hill from the Pentagon with his fiancee Heather Smith, a documentary film producer (a former Fox News Channel producer and Laura Ingraham producer). Miniter is the older brother of Brendan Miniter, the Wall Street Journal's Assistant Editor, OpinionJournal.com and Frank Miniter is the executive editor of the NRA's American Hunter magazine, who is working on a book "The Politically Incorrect Guide to Hunting". Miniter's father, Richard F. Miniter published in 2000 a book about their family adopting a disadvantaged child.

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