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Morgan Pehme
Born (1978-05-05) May 5, 1978 (age 46)
New York City
Occupation(s)Journalist, filmmaker, political commentator
Known forGet Me Roger Stone

Morgan Pehme (born May 5, 1978[1] in New York City[2]) is an American filmmaker and journalist.

Background

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Pehme's father was journalist Kalev Pehme.[3] On his paternal side, his grandfather, Karl Pehme, was a sculptor from Estonia.[4] His grandmother, Guerel Oulanoff, was a pianist of Kalmyk descent.[4]

As a child, Pehme achieved renown for his success as a chess player.[2]

Pehme attended The Dalton School.[5] He was a character in the book Searching for Bobby Fischer and was subsequently depicted in the film.[3]

Pehme won the 1993 National Junior High School Chess Championship.[6] He represented the United States in the Boys Under 12 section of the 1990 World Youth Chess Festival for Peace in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin.[7]

His participation in the event led to him become one of the subjects of director Lynn Hamrick's 1996 documentary, Chess Kids,[8] as well as Hamrick's 2011 sequel to the film.[9]

Career

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Film

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Pehme began his career as a filmmaker as an executive producer of the narrative film Exist (2004), directed by Esther Bell.[1]

The next year, Pehme produced Nightmare, which he co-wrote with the film's director, Dylan Bank.[1] Pehme and Bank were awarded the jury prize for Best Screenplay from the 2006 Austin Fantastic Fest.[10] The film was released in the United States by IFC Films.[11]

Pehme made his directorial debut with Nothing Sacred (2012),[1] a fantasy horror film starring William Sadler, Thierry Lhermitte, Philippe Nahon, Eric Godon, Debbie Rochon, Naama Kates and Alan Barnes Netherton.

In 2017, Pehme co-directed, produced and wrote the Netflix Original documentary Get Me Roger Stone,[12] which explores the life and career of conservative strategist Roger Stone, who played an integral role in Donald Trump's election as President of the United States.[13] The film, which took Pehme and his co-directors Daniel DiMauro and Dylan Bank five years to make,[14] premiered at the 2017 Tribeca Film Festival.[15]

In 2020, Pehme again explored Trump's inner circle with Slumlord Millionaire,[16] about White House senior advisor Jared Kushner, Trump's son-in-law. Pehme directed and produced the documentary with Daniel DiMauro as an episode of Dirty Money, a Netflix Original documentary series executive produced by Academy Award-winning filmmaker Alex Gibney.[17]

That same year, Pehme directed, wrote and produced The Swamp for HBO Documentary Films. The film explores the dysfunction plaguing the United States Congress, tracking three Republican members of Congress, Matt Gaetz of Florida, Thomas Massie of Kentucky, and Ken Buck of Colorado, throughout 2019.[18]

Journalism and Politics

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Early in Pehme's journalism career, he served as a columnist and managing editor for The Queens Courier, a community newspaper.[19][20][21]

Later, Pehme wrote The Brooklyn Optimist, a blog about Brooklyn.[22] In September 2008, Pehme, a critic of Brooklyn Democratic Chairman Vito Lopez,[23] was elected to represent a portion of Greenpoint, Brooklyn as a County Committee Member in the Kings County Democratic Party.[24]

In 2011, Pehme was named one of City Hall's Rising Stars Under 40[25] for his work as executive director of New York Civic, a group founded by former New York City Parks Commissioner Henry Stern.[26]

In 2012, Pehme was hired as editor-in-chief of the newspaper City & State, which covers New York politics.[27] During Pehme's tenure, City & State won a number of New York State Press Association awards,[28] including Best Coverage of Elections/Politics, 2013, for which he was personally recognized, along with Nick Powell, Jon Lentz and Aaron Short.[29]

In 2015, Morgan Pehme was hired as executive director of EffectiveNY, a nonpartisan government watchdog group founded by businessman Bill Samuels.[30] He also produced and co-hosted with Samuels the radio show "Effective Radio with Bill Samuels", which aired on AM970 in New York.[31] New York Nonprofit Media named Pehme to its 2017 class of 40 Under 40 Rising Stars of the New York nonprofit world for his work at EffectiveNY.[32]

Pehme is a former adjunct professor of mass communications, journalism, TV and film at St. John's University.[33]

He has contributed articles to numerous publications, including The New York Times,[34] The Washington Post,[35] New York Daily News,[36] HuffPost,[37] The Hill,[38] and The Daily Beast.[39]

Pehme is an on-camera political analyst for PIX11.[40] He serves on the board of advisors of the Museum of Political Corruption.[41]

References

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  1. ^ a b c d "Morgan Pehme". IMDb. Retrieved July 19, 2020.
  2. ^ a b "A Multi-Ethnic Mix of Prodigies". Christian Science Monitor. March 20, 1989. ISSN 0882-7729. Retrieved July 19, 2020.
  3. ^ a b "The United States Chess Federation - Kalev Pehme, Former Chess Life Editor, Dies". www.uschess.org. Retrieved July 19, 2020.
  4. ^ a b "Our Town September 8, 2011". Issuu. September 8, 2011. Retrieved July 19, 2020.
  5. ^ "GUEST OP-ED - Bobby Fischer and me". QNS.com. January 31, 2008. Retrieved July 19, 2020.
  6. ^ "A History of the National Junior High School Chess Championship" (PDF).
  7. ^ Cruz, Humberto (July 15, 1990). "YOUNGSTERS FACE OFF IN WORLD COMPETITION". Sun-Sentinel.com. Retrieved July 19, 2020.
  8. ^ Chess Kids, retrieved November 23, 2018
  9. ^ Shahade, Jennifer. "The United States Chess Federation - Chess Kids, Two Decades Later". www.uschess.org.
  10. ^ Nightmare - IMDb, retrieved July 19, 2020
  11. ^ "IFC Films' NIGHTMARE hits DVD". We Are Movie Geeks. October 13, 2009. Retrieved July 19, 2020.
  12. ^ "Watch Get Me Roger Stone | Netflix Official Site". Netflix.
  13. ^ Gilbert, Sophie (May 11, 2017). "Get Me Roger Stone Profiles the Man Who Created President Trump". The Atlantic.
  14. ^ "Documentary Reveals The 'Dirty Tricks' Of One Of Trump's Closest Political Advisers". NPR Movie Interviews. July 13, 2017.
  15. ^ "'Get Me Roger Stone' Director Reflects on His Subject, a "Malevolent Forrest Gump"". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved November 23, 2018.
  16. ^ Slumlord Millionaire, March 11, 2020, retrieved July 19, 2020
  17. ^ Dry, Jude (March 12, 2020). "The Most Shocking Discoveries About 'Slumlord' Jared Kushner in Netflix's 'Dirty Money'". IndieWire. Retrieved July 19, 2020.
  18. ^ "Documentary THE SWAMP Debuts August 4, Exclusively On HBO". Pressroom. July 17, 2020. Retrieved July 20, 2020.
  19. ^ "» City & State hires Morgan Pehme as editor-in-chief - City & State". archives.cityandstateny.com.
  20. ^ "Beware of Queens' Other Boulevard of Death, Queens Courier, January 9-15, 2002". www.transalt.org.
  21. ^ "Morgan Pehme | The New York Times, HuffPost, New York Daily News Journalist | Muck Rack". muckrack.com. Retrieved November 23, 2018.
  22. ^ "A Ghostbuster In Carroll Gardens?". pardonmeforasking.blogspot.com. Retrieved July 20, 2020.
  23. ^ "The Brooklyn Optimist: For the Record, Mr. Lopez, I Love the Kings County Democratic Party". The Brooklyn Optimist. June 12, 2009. Retrieved July 20, 2020.
  24. ^ "The Brooklyn Optimist: Brooklyn Optimist Wins Election in a Landslide!". The Brooklyn Optimist. September 25, 2008. Retrieved July 20, 2020.
  25. ^ Bragg, Chris (September 19, 2011). "Rising Stars 40 Under 40: Morgan Pehme". City & State. Archived from the original on September 27, 2013.
  26. ^ "Longtime City Parks Commissioner Henry Stern Dies At 83". www.ny1.com. Retrieved July 20, 2020.
  27. ^ City & State hires Morgan Pehme as editor-in-chief City & State April 18, 2012 http://www.cityandstateny.com/city-state-hires-morgan-pehme-editor-in-chief/
  28. ^ "City & State Wins 4 NY Press Association Awards". April 11, 2014.
  29. ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on November 23, 2015. Retrieved November 23, 2015.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  30. ^ Paybarah, Azi; Vielkind, Jimmy; Allen, Mike. "Capital Playbook: Hillary may delay launch until summer". Politico PRO. Retrieved July 20, 2020.
  31. ^ "Bill Samuels – TALKERS magazine – "The bible of talk media."". TALKERS magazine - “The bible of talk media.”. Retrieved July 20, 2020.
  32. ^ NYN MEDIA (June 9, 2017). "NYN'S 3RD ANNUAL 40 UNDER 40". New York Nonprofit Media.
  33. ^ "College of Professional Studies" (PDF).
  34. ^ Pehme, Morgan; DiMauro, Daniel; Bank, Dylan (July 12, 2020). "Opinion | What Trump Wants From Roger Stone". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved July 20, 2020.
  35. ^ Pehme, Morgan; DiMauro, Daniel; Bank, Dylan. "Opinion | Roger Stone believed morality was weakness. His downfall was loyalty to a friend". Washington Post. Retrieved July 20, 2020.
  36. ^ PEHME, MORGAN (February 4, 2016). "What Mayor de Blasio's 2016 State of the City address did right". nydailynews.com. Retrieved July 20, 2020.
  37. ^ Pehme, Morgan (January 4, 2012). "Candidate College: 10 Essential Tips for Running for Office". HuffPost. Retrieved July 20, 2020.
  38. ^ Picard, Joe (January 5, 2016). "Make running for office your New Year's resolution". TheHill. Retrieved July 20, 2020.
  39. ^ DiMauro, Morgan Pehme, Daniel (March 27, 2020). "Jared Kushner, Slumlord Millionaire, Can't Evict the Virus". The Daily Beast. Retrieved July 20, 2020.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  40. ^ "New York voters may have picked the next president, and it's not who you think". WPIX. April 21, 2016. Retrieved July 20, 2020.
  41. ^ "About". THE MUSEUM OF POLITICAL CORRUPTION. Retrieved July 20, 2020.
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