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Dan Perry

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Led Mideast/Europe/Africa/Caribbean at the Associated Press, author and publisher of Ask Questions Later at danperry.substack.com

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Dan Perry’s Biography

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Dan Perry is a writer, entrepreneur and communications professional who served as the Middle East Editor of the Associated Press news agency, based in Cairo, during the Arab Spring and the resultant regional upheaval – a time when the agency won numerous prizes for investigative and visual work in Iraq, Syria, Pakistan, Yemen and Gaza (including the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for international reporting for an investigative all-format series on the Yemen war).

Previously he led AP in Europe, Africa a…

Dan Perry’s Journalist Portfolio

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MSNBC, NewsNation, Al Jazeera appearances

MSNBC, NewsNation, Al Jazeera appearances

Appearances on MSNBC, Al Jazeera, NewsNation and more

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Immigration Fears Everywhere (Newsweek)

Immigration Fears Everywhere (Newsweek)

This is, essentially, the reason Brexit happened

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A pivot point on Gaza (The Hill)

A pivot point on Gaza (The Hill)

One might ask why Hamas decided to roll the dice this way.

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Israel's democracy threatened (CNN)

Israel's democracy threatened (CNN)

Israel’s existence is in peril — certainly as a democracy and, in the longer term, as a viable economy and Je…

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Information also wants to be expensive (MediaIte)

Information also wants to be expensive (MediaIte)

What ramparts keep idiocracy at bay? It is the news media, and you get what you pay for.

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Debating US guns with a true believer (i24)

Debating US guns with a true believer (i24)

Uploaded by Dan Perry on 2023-01-25.

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Articles

The Coming Chasm Between the Informed and Everyone Else Is Terrible for Democracy Original

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By Dan Perry
| Mediaite Verified
Photo by: Matthias Balk/picture-alliance/dpa/AP Images The headline finding from the 2026 Reuters Digital News Report, released in recent days, was that for the first time, social and video platforms have overtaken both television and news websites as a source of news. Fifty-four percent of respondents across dozens of countries said they had used social or video networks for news in the previous week, compared with 52 percent for television and 51 percent for news websites and apps.
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The Washington Post Disaster is an Indictment of Both Publishers and Society

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By Dan Perry
| Yahoo Verified
Washington Post AP Photo/Lauren Victoria Burke The shocking diminishment of The Washington Post, which has just announced it is cutting a third of its staff, is not just another story of a great paper succumbing to algorithms, social media, and the march to idiocracy. In their zeal to be seen as fair and evenhanded, journalists tend to accept the common criticism that they failed to adapt — that, basically, they didn’t produce enough viral TikTok videos.
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The World Needs Europe to Rein In Social Media For All of US Original

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By Dan Perry
| Mediaite Verified
Photo by: Alicia Windzio/picture-alliance/dpa/AP Images The newly released U.S. National Security Strategy criticizes Europe for what it calls “censorship of free speech and suppression of political opposition” through digital regulation. The document reveals an administration so thoroughly entangled with Big Tech that it cannot acknowledge the damage platforms cause, let alone confront it.
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What was your first job as a journalist?

At the King of Prussia Courier

Have you ever used a typewriter?

Yes

How is social media changing news?

It's made it seem that everyone's a journalist which could democratize information or destroy civilization. We shall see.

Awards

Pulitzer Prize

2018 - International News

Yemen's Dirty War, a multimedia project I helped lead as AP's Middle East Editor, which exposed horrific effects of the war in Yemen.

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