Reese Erlich's Bio

Reese Erlich's history in journalism goes back 37 years. He first worked as a staff writer and research editor for Ramparts, an investigative reporting magazine published in San Francisco from 1963 to 1975. Today he works as a full-time print and broadcast, freelance reporter. He reports regularly for National Public Radio, CBC, ABC (Australia), Radio Deutche Welle and The World. His articles appear in the SF Chronicle, Chicago Tribune, St. Petersburg Times and the Dallas Morning News. His television documentaries have aired on PBS stations nationwide.

Erlich's book, Target Iraq: What the News Media Didn't Tell You -- co-authored with Norman Solomon -- became a best seller in 2003. In 2004 Erlich's radio special "Children of War: Fighting, Dying, Surviving," won a Clarion Award presented by the Association for Women in Communication and second and third place from the National Headliner Awards. His article about the U.S. use of depleted uranium ammunition was voted the eighth most censored story in America for 2002-3 by Project Censored at Sonoma State University. In 2002 his radio documentary, "The Russia Project," hosted by Walter Cronkite, won the depth reporting prize for broadcast journalism awarded by the Northern California Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists.

Links
  PEACETALKS: Hiroshima
  Russia Project (2002)
  Iran Project
  Target Iraq: What the Media Didn't Tell You