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About Jackie Spinner
- Jackie Spinner is an American journalist who worked for The Washington Post from 1995 to 2009.Spinner grew up in Decatur, Illinois, the daughter of a pipe fitter and a schoolteacher.
- 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 was a U.S.
- 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-S Voice, Iraq's first independent student newspaper at The American University of Iraq—Sulaimani.
- During her time as a Fulbright Scholar, Spinner taught digital journalism at Sultan Qaboos University in Oman, where she founded Al 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 U.S.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 MSNBC, PBS, CNN, BBC, ABC, and National Public Radio, and was featured in a PBS Frontline documentary on reporting the war in Iraq. Spinner's most recent project was Don't Forget Me, a documentary about autism in Morocco.
- The film premiered at the Rabat International Film Festival.She is currently a journalism teacher at Columbia College Chicago.
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