Mary pflum peterson biography
- Mary Pflum Peterson is a multi-Emmy-Award-winning television journalist, a New York Times bestselling author, and an acclaimed public speaker.
- Mary Pflum Peterson is a veteran multi-Emmy-Award winning producer at Good Morning America.
- Mary Pflum Peterson is multi-award winning television journalist and New York Times bestselling author.
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By THIRSTY
Mary Pflum Peterson
Mary Pflum Peterson is an Emmy Award-winning producer at ABC News/Good Morning America where she has covered a broad range of stories from natural disasters to the royal wedding to the Academy Award ceremonies. Before joining ABC, she was a producer and reporter for CNN where she handled subjects as diverse as the Middle East, the Afghanistan war and ballrooms in Vienna. Peterson grew up in Wisconsin, but lives in New York City with her husband and four young children. It was in Manhattan that Stay Thirsty Magazine had a chance to visit with her for this Conversation.
STAY THIRSTY: Your book, White Dresses, is "A Memoir of Love and Secrets, Mothers and Daughters" and has been praised as "A candid, moving memoir about the many complexities of family." You dedicated the book to your mother, Anne Diener Pflum. How did writing this book help you understand your mother and your childhood?
MARY PFLUM PETERSON: Writing White Dresses provided me with a terrific ability to take a step back and look at my childhood in full. Like
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JOURNALIST
Mary Pflum Peterson is a multi-Emmy-Award-winning television journalist. Her work has taken her to warzones in Afghanistan, royal weddings in London, papal funerals in Rome, Hurricane-Katrina-ravaged streets in New Orleans, Opera Balls in Vienna, Presidential campaign trails in middle America, and backstage at the Oscars. Pflum Peterson's work has been broadcast to millions on CNN, ABC, and NBC. Her posts have included New York, Atlanta, Berlin and Istanbul. Interviewees have included President Obama, Chelsea Clinton, Newt Gingrich, then-Pakistani-Prime-Minister-Sharif, George Clooney, Mary Tyler Moore and Jennifer Lopez. From 1996 to 2001, Pflum Peterson was an on-camera reporter for CNN, reporting for CNN Newsroom and CNN International. In 1999, Pflum Peterson moved to Turkey, where she served as CNN Turk Bureau Chief and spent more than two years living in and reporting on earthquakes, primate struggling, the rise of Hezbollah and unrest throughout the Middle East. Pflum Peterson is additionally an accomplished print journalist. Her work has been published
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About Mary
Mary Pflum Peterson is a multi-Emmy-Award-winning television journalist ... a New York Times bestselling author ... and an acclaimed public speaker.
Mary began her career in journalism at the CNN-New York Bureau at age 20, while still an undergraduate at Columbia University. By age 21, she was conducting her first big interviews with political leaders the likes of Rudy Giuliani and Newt Gingrich. By age 23, she was reporting on-camera around the nation for CNN and filling in as an anchor on CNN Newsroom.
Mary went on report internationally, covering everything from Vienna balls to Maltese temples - but calls the time she spent living and working for CNN in Turkey from 1999 to 2002 as the most formative period of her journalism career.
In October 2002, Mary returned to the U.S. to work for ABC News/ Good Morning America. Her time at GMA enabled her to cover presidential elections, Oscar races, Hurricane Katrina, the London bombings, royal weddings, the death of Pope John Paul II, and the ascendance of Barack Obama to national political power. It also
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