Jamie Reno

Jamie Reno is one of the nation’s most honored and successful print journalists. A correspondent for Newsweek for 20 years, Jamie has covered 9/11, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, presidential elections, Congress, and hundreds of major news stories. Jamie has also written for the New York Times, Rolling Stone, Sports Illustrated, Men’s Journal, TV Guide, People, Entertainment Weekly, ESPN, Los Angeles Times, MSNBC, Mother Jones, Chicago Tribune and USA Today.

Jamie was the lead reporter on a Newsweek series on the 9/11 terror attacks that earned him and his colleagues the National Magazine Award for General Excellence, the highest award in magazine journalism. Jamie was also the lead reporter on several Newsweek stories on the problems veterans face when returning home from Iraq and Afghanistan including the “Failing Our Wounded” cover piece that received so much worldwide attention. Jamie has won more than 90 Press Club and Society of Professional Journalist awards, including the prestigious Best of Show award four times.

Jamie is also the author of two acclaimed books, Hope Begins in the Dark: 40 Lymphoma Survivors Tell Their Exclusive Life Stories http://www.hopebeginsinthedark.com, and Snowman on the Pitcher’s Mound http://www.pitchersmound.org/. A 16-year, three-time survivor of stage 4 non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma cancer, Jamie is an advocate for cancer patients and their families, and a successful singer-songwriter-guitarist. Jamie lives in San Diego with his wife, Gabriela and their daughter, Mandy.