23 Facts About Richard Miniter

Richard Miniter was born on 1967 and is an American investigative journalist and author whose articles have appeared in Politico, The New York Times, The Washington Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic Monthly, Newsweek, The New Republic, National Review, PJ Media, and Reader's Digest.

Richard Miniter authored three New York Times best-selling books, Losing bin Laden, Shadow War, Leading From Behind, and most recently Eyes On Target.

Richard Miniter was born in New York City and grew up in Rosendale, New York.

Richard Miniter studied philosophy at Vassar College, graduating in 1990.

Richard Miniter was an editor of the Vassar Spectator, one of the school's student periodicals, where he worked with Mark Thiessen and Jonathan Karl.

Richard Miniter later worked as an environmental policy analyst at the Competitive Enterprise Institute.

From 1992 to 1994, Richard Miniter was an associate producer of the PBS talk show TechnoPolitics.

Richard Miniter was a fellow and senior editor of the Hudson Institute.

Richard Miniter published in a number of newspapers, including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The Sunday Times, South China Morning Post, and Australian Financial Review.

Richard Miniter travelled to South Sudan, Uganda and Kenya to write about modern-day slavery for The Atlantic Monthly in "The False Promise of Slave Redemption".

Richard Miniter worked for the Dow Jones Newswires during the summers of 1987 and 1988.

Richard Miniter wrote a weekly column, "The Visible Hand", for The Wall Street Journal's OpinionJournal.

Richard Miniter left the Journal after less than two years to take a position with the Centre for the New Europe in Brussels, Belgium.

Richard Miniter left there after a short stint as a senior fellow.

Richard Miniter was the editorial page editor and Vice President of Opinion at The Washington Times from March until October 2009.

Richard Miniter later sued for breach of contract and other claims.

In 2012, Richard Miniter founded the American Media Institute, a 501 non-profit organization that provides investigative news stories to leading newspapers, magazines, radio and television news outlets around the world.

Richard Miniter was one of three American journalists present at the Seder, which was attended by US Secretary of State John Kerry.

Richard Miniter started Zenger News, a digital news wire, in 2019.

Richard Miniter traveled to Egypt, Sudan and corresponded with sources in Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, and Afghanistan while working on the book.

Richard Miniter edited a 2008 book entitled Jack Bauer for President: Terrorism and Politics in 24.

Richard Miniter was attacked by CNN national security analyst Peter Bergen.

Richard Miniter's book alleged that Obama was indecisive and delayed when action was needed on the attack of bin Laden, which brought Bergen to state "Richard Miniter's account of the intelligence that led to bin Laden and the decision-making surrounding the operation that killed him is a pile of poppycock served up with heaps of hogwash".