Miriam Pepper
- Trip:
- Gatekeepers Kenya 2009
- Affiliation during program:
- Kansas City Star
- Country:
- Kenya
- Year:
- 2009
- Email:
- [email protected]
Miriam Pepper was named editorial page editor of The Kansas City Star in November, 2001 and vice president, editorial page, in 2007.
In her 33-year career at the newspaper she has been Readers' Representative and Associate Editor/Forum; a business columnist; political writer; projects reporter; City Hall bureau chief; Missouri legislative correspondent and an editor of a Sunday business section.
She was part of The Star's team coverage of the Hyatt Hotel skywalks collapse that won a public service Pulitzer Prize in 1982. She served as co-chair of the first newsroom diversity committee. She is a past president of the Greater Kansas City Press Club, a current board member of the Kansas City Press Club Foundation, a past board member of the Organization of News Ombudsmen, and a current board member of the National Conference of Editorial Writers.
She began her career at The St. Louis Post-Dispatch as a sports writer and worked for the Associated Press in Jefferson City, Mo., covering the state legislature.
She attended Brandeis University and is a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley.She is married to an attorney and has two children, a son who is a musician in Lawrence, Ks. and a daughter who is a nurse in New York City.
Stories
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Video: Kibera’s slum dwellers need more than promises
As urbanization grows across Africa, the continent's largest slum in Nairobi remains a humanitarian disgrace. A lack of government services leaves more than one million Kenyans ...
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Photo Gallery: Kibera’s 1-million slum dwellers need more than promises
Kibera, Africa’s largest slum of 1 million in Nairobi, Kenya, has grown over decades yet still lacks basic government services of clean running water and sanitation. ...
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LEBANON’S EVOLUTION
The images confound the stereotype of what a puppet state of Syria should look like. BEIRUT, Lebanon — Remnants of the 15-year civil war still litter Lebanon's capital. ...
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SIGNS OF REFORM?
DAMASCUS, Syria — Syrian President Bashar Assad dismisses U.S. sanctions against his nation as uncalled for and unsupported by evidence. And he appears to be frighteningly ...
Blog Posts RSS
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June 03, 2009 | by Miriam Pepper
An Obama family reunion in the works?
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June 01, 2009 | by Miriam Pepper
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