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Jamie's latest project is Snowman on the Pitcher's Mound, a brand new novel and national program for kids and families touched by cancer. The book is part of the Pitcher'es Moind Project, which helps kids when they have a parent with cancer or any serious illness. The website and blog is at www.pitchersmound.org.
Education

San Diego State University

Journalism major / Political Science minor

Accomplishments
Jamie won more than 80 Press Club and Society of Professional Journalist awards, including more than 20 First Place prizes and the prestigious Best of Show award four times. Jamie has won more Press Club and SPJ awards than any other print journalist in San Diego County over the last 20 years. He was recently the recipient of the special Drew Silvern Award for his courageous battle with cancer and for his work with cancer patients, including his books and articles informing the public about a wide variety of cancer-related issues. Jamie has also consulted ewith more than a dozen non-profits on how to spread the word about new cancer treatments and info about other diseases and helped kids and families coping with illness at events nationwide and was named Survivor of the Year recently by the Greg Wolf Fund, a cancer non-profit.
Resume

For the last 17 years, Jamie has been an award-winning correspondent with Newsweek, where he has covered 9/11, the war in Iraq and Afghanistan, the John Kerry and Barack Obama presidential campaigns, Congressional corruption, the border, the CIA, the environment, business, travel, tech, sports, healthcare, education, popular culture, music, and more. Jamie was the lead reporter on a Newsweek series on the 9/11 terror attacks that earned Jamie and my colleagues the National Magazine Award for General Excellence, the highest award in magazine journalism. Jamie was also the lead reporter on several Newsweek cover stories on the problems veterans face when returning home from Iraq and Afghanistan including the “Failing Our Wounded” cover story that received so much worldwide attention. While at Newsweek Jamie won more than 80 Press Club and SPJ awards, including the prestigious Best of Show award four times. Jamie has won more Press Club and SPJ awards than any other print journalist in San Diego County over the last 20 years.

Jamie has also written for such publications as the New York Times, Rolling Stone, Sports Illustrated, Men’s Journal, TV Guide, Newsmax, Mother Jones, Entertainment Weekly, Westways, Premiere, US, Inside Sports, Los Angeles Times, People, Chicago Tribune, Portland Oregonian, San Francisco Chronicle, Baltimore Sun, San Diego Magazine, San Diego Union-Tribune, and USA Today.

Jamie is also an acclaimed author whose latest book,  Snowman on the Pitcher’s Mound http://www.pitchersmound.org/, his first novel, is the story of a 10-year-old Little Leaguer who is coping with the cancer diagnosis of his mom. The book, just released, is already receiving widespread acclaim, and is part of The Pitcher’s Mound Project, a national program for children who have a parent with any serious illness. Jamie blogs about kids and parental issues on his pitchermound.org blog site.

Jamie is also author of Hope Begins in the Dark: 50 Lymphoma Survivors Tell Their Exclusive Life Stories, http://www.hopebeginsinthedark.com, an inspirational, informative, first-of-its-kind book in which he writes about his 14-year battle with stage 4 lymphoma cancer and profiles 50 fellow lymphoma survivors, including celebrities who've never spoken publicly about their cancer. The book has become an international success and the most popular book ever written about lymphoma survivorship.
 

Other experience/information - http://www.jamiereno.com - Jamie is also a successful singer-songwriter with a national record deal, and a respected national advocate for veterans, cancer patients and children who was recently awarded the Press Club’s highly prestigious Drew Silvern Award for my fight against cancer and coverage and support of kids and families touched by cancer. He can be found on Facebook and LinkedIn. He lives in San Diego with hiswife, Gabriela, and their daughter, Mandy.

 
Available for

All types of professional, preferably national writing assignments, from news to features to investigative work to blogs to columns to editing to politcal coverage to arts to the border to national security to music.
Recommendations

Jamie is a gifted reporter and excellent writer. He is a dogged, thorough and careful reporter who is used to working in real-time and on fast-paced deadlines.  We relied on his knowledge and well-developed bank of sources to help distinguish our coverage from our competitors. He was particularly good on the military, the Randy Duke Cunningham corruption story and he was an important member of our team that reported on the 9/11 attacks. He also did excellent work on PTSD issues, on John Kerry's Vietnam experience, Agent Orange and cancer and Iraq war issues, among other issues. Jamie covered many breaking news situations and reported on a wide range of topics, from the military and the war on terrorism, to politics, sports and culture. He is unfailingly professional and I believe adheres to the highest standards of accuracy, fairness and objectivity. He also worked extensively for Newsweek.com, and would be a major asset to your organization.  Economic circumstances forced us to reduce our reporting staff and his position was eliminated strictly as a budgetary matter But if we were in the position to rehire him we would, without a doubt.

Mark Miller
Editorial Director, Newsweek
Editor, Newsweek Digital

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