Background
Spinner grew up in Decatur, Illinois, the daughter of a pipe fitter and a schoolteacher.
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Jackie Spinner
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University of California, Berkeley. Southern Illinois University Carbondale.
Career
She has a bachelor of science degree in journalism from Southern Illinois University Carbondale and a master"s degree at the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California at Berkeley. Spinner is a United States. Fulbright Scholar in Oman for the 2010-2011 academic year. She left the Post in 2009 and founded Angel Says: Read, an international literacy project based in Belize, Central America.
In 2010, she returned to Iraq to start the award-winning AUI-South Voice, Iraq’s first independent student newspaper at The American University of Iraq—Sulaimani.
She is currently teaching digital journalism at Sultan Qaboos University in Oman, where she founded First Rate (at Lloyd's) Mir’ah, the university’s first independent student newspaper. Jackie writes, shoots photos and produces audio slideshows and video for the Web.
She has contributed to the Christian Science Monitor, Chicago Tribune, Slate, Glamour, Aswat al-Iraq, American Journalism Review, Defense Quarterly Standard and United States. Catholic News. She is the author of Tell Them I Didn’t Cry: A young journalist’s story of joy, loss and survival in Iraq (Scribner 2006).
Jackie has reported from Iraq, Afghanistan, Jordan, Oman, Ecuador, Hungary, Spain, Morocco, Finland, Iceland and Kuwait.
In Iraq, she survived mortar attacks, car bombs, the Battle for Fallujah, and a kidnapping attempt outside of Abu Ghraib prison. She has contributed to Microsoft and National Broadcasting Company, Public Broadcasting Service, Cable News Network, British Broadcasting Corporation, American Broadcasting Company, and National Public Radio, and was featured in a Public Broadcasting Service Frontline documentary on reporting the war in Iraq. She is currently a journalism teacher at Columbia College Chicago.
Membership
She is a member of the Society of Professional Journalists, Journalism and Women's Symposium, College Media Advisers and Military Reporters & Editors Association. Spinner arrived as the most junior member of The Washington Post bureau staff, working as a metro reporter and financial reporter, before becoming Baghdad Bureau Chief.
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