Peter annin biography

Peter Annin, author of the Great Lakes Water Wars, is the new co-directer of the Mary Griggs Burke Center for Freshwater Innovation at Northland College and director of environmental communication.

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Here he talks about his career and his decision to leave Notre Dame for Northland College.

Q. Your bio lists you as a conflict and environmental journalist. Did you go looking for conflict or did it find you?

A.

That’s a great question.

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The short answer is the conflict found me. As a young correspondent in Newsweek magazine’s Houston Bureau, I ended up getting assigned to a lot of big breaking news events, the most noteworthy of which was the Branch Davidian standoff outside Waco, Texas, which lasted for 51 days and ended in a massive conflagration that killed scores of people.

After I moved to Newsweek’s Chicago Bureau, I kept getting drawn into that kind of conflict reporting, including the Oklahoma City Bombing, shooting massacres, and that sort of th