Vince Beiser
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| Born | July 13, 1965 New York City, United States |
| Occupation | Journalist |
| Nationality | American/Canadian |
| Genres | criminal justice |
Vince L. Beiser (July 13, 1965) is an American-Canadian journalist. He graduated with highest honors (Summa cum Laude) from the University of California at Berkeley with a degree in Middle Eastern Studies.
He is the former senior editor of Mother Jones[1] , was a special projects reporter for The Oakland Tribune, and a senior writer for The Jerusalem Report, Israel's leading news magazine. For publications such as Harper's, Wired, The Los Angeles Times Magazine, The Village Voice, The New Republic, The Nation, and Rolling Stone he has reported from as far away as the Balkans and the Middle East. He is an online contributor to The Huffington Post[2].
As a Los Angeles-based freelance journalist specializing in criminal justice and other social issues, Beiser's work has been honored by Investigative Reporters and Editors, the Columbia, Medill and Missouri Graduate Schools of Journalism, the National Mental Health Association, the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies and other institutions.
For his frequent reporting on capital punishment/death-row issues, Beiser is a regular guest on the BBC, NPR and other radio talk shows.
Beiser lives in Los Angeles, California, with his wife and daughter. He is the son of Order of Canada recipient Morton Beiser and Canadian socialite Roberta Lando Beiser and is the brother of X-Files actor Brendan Beiser.
