Peter Van Sant Biography

Fast Facts

• Received an Overseas Press Club Award for finding an taping an indicted war criminal in Bosnia as part of an undercover team of investigative journalists
• Won a Columbia University Alfred I․ duPont Award for his coverage of the collapse of the Soviet Union
• Won a Sigma Delta Chi Award in 2005 for his report on the worldwide trafficking of human beings
• His report on terrorists seizing and destroying a school in Beslan, Russia won him numerous awards, including the Edward R․ Murrow Award and the Golden Word Award, Russia's most prestigious journalism award
• Attended Washington State University in Pullman, graduating cum laude with a degree in communications
• Earned his first experience as a broadcast journalist while working for KAPY radio in Part Angeles, Wash
• Joined CBS News in 1984, and while based in Atlanta, covered the south, he space program and the aviation industry
• Was the first television journalist to report on the famine in North Korea in the late 1990s
• While working for the London bureau of CBS News from 1989 to 1991, he reported on the collapse of the Soviet Union, the first Gulf War, the reunification of Germany and the famine in Africa
• Co-authored the book "Perfectly Executed," part of the true crime book series associated with "48 Hours Mystery․"