Jackie Spinner
Jackie Spinner is a staff writer for the Washington Post,
where she has been a reporter since 1995. She started at the
Post as a summer intern on the Financial staff after earning
her master's degree at the Graduate School of Journalism at
the University of California at Berkeley. She has a bachelor
of science degree in journalism from Southern Illinois
University Carbondale. At the Post, Spinner has worked as a Metro reporter and
Financial reporter. Before going to Iraq, she covered
accounting policy for two years and was the newspaper's
expert on, in her own words "weather hedges and obscure
financial instruments." She went to Iraq as a war
correspondent and survived mortar attacks, car bombs, the
battle for Fallujah and a kidnapping attempt outside of Abu
Ghraib prison. She has contributed to MSNBC, PBS, CNN, BBC,
ABC, and National Public Radio and was featured in a PBS
Frontline documentary on reporting the war in Iraq. Before the Post, Spinner contributed to the Oakland Tribune,
the San Diego Union Tribune, the Decatur Herald and Review
and the Los Angeles Times TV magazine. Her proudest moment was when the Daily Egyptian at Southern
Illinois University beat the Daily Illini of the University
of Illinois in the state college newspaper competition. It
was 1992. She stood on her editor in chief's desk and asked
her reporters to shout for one minute as loud as they could
for all the people who doubted that they could be the best. Spinner is an award-winning journalist and travel writer,
whose exploits from the Galapagos Islands, Rock of
Gibraltar, Spain, Finland and Jordan have been detailed in
the travel pages of the Washington Post. She is a member of the Journalism and Women's Symposium and
was a media fellow at Duke University in 2002. Spinner grew
up in Illinois. Her proud parents were a pipe fitter and a
schoolteacher. She lives in Washington, D.C.
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Series
Books:Tell Then I Didn't Cry, February 2006
Hardcover
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