♦ Jesse Pesta is a writer and photographer and a Page One editor at The Wall Street Journal.

He has lived and worked as a journalist in New York, India, Hong Kong and small-town America, where his family published a more-than-century-old local newspaper.

♦ As an editor he has worked with reporters world-wide on WSJ Page One coverage of:

Vietnam's bride kidnappers, America's housing crisis, India's experiment in schooling, Iceland's weird economy, stretch limos that are too long, midwives who murder babies, a Chinese family's nightmare, FBI informants, reverse white flight and getting naked in Vermont.

He edited much of the Journal's award-winning Page One coverage of Iran at the height of the 2009 crisis there, and the award-winning 2010 online-privacy series, "What They Know."

Editing projects for 2011 include: "Flawed Miracle" (examining obstacles to India's rise), "Federal Offenses" (exposing dysfunction in the federal criminal code) and "Censorship Inc." (investigating the companies that help repressive nations censor their citizens.)

♦ As a reporter he has written about:

The world's fastest ocean liner, an unusual parade in the American midwest, India's out-of-date doorknob technology, the slaughter of Nepal's royal family and Great Britain's unhappy mercenaries.

♦ In 2009 he traveled to Cambodia as a photographer for a project on modern-day slavery published in Marie Claire.

♦ In 2001 he covered the aftermath of the September 11 terror attacks from Islamabad, Pakistan.

♦ Jesse's photos have been published by The Wall Street Journal, Marie Claire magazine, The Daily Beast and other publications, and shown at the Exit Art gallery, New York; Photographic Gallery, Front St., New York; Chrystie Street Gallery, Chrystie St., New York; ABC No Rio, Rivington St., New York; Southern Indiana Center for the Arts; and Edward Hopper House, Nyack, N.Y.

Visit this family art site to see more photos as well as short-short stories, pastel art, cartoons ~ and a serial mystery novel. The site is a collaboration with Maureen O'Hara Pesta, Abigail Pesta and John Pesta.

♦ November 12, 2011: Panelist/critic at the annual résumé critique held by the Asian American Journalists Association.

♦ June 29, 2011: The WSJ's investigative report on privacy, "What They Know," takes home a UCLA Gerald Loeb Award for distinguished journalism.

♦ June 3-August 5, 2011: Selected photos on view at the Exit Art gallery in New York as part of the Contemporary Slavery exhibition.

Panelist in the SEA Poetry Series, alongside Tonya Foster, as part of the exhibit. June 14, 7-9 p.m.

♦ March 26, 2011: Represented the Journal at Yale Law School to discuss personal privacy and the online advertising business.

♦ September 25, 2010: Spoke at "Music for Humanity," a concert memorial for Daniel Pearl.

A video of the remarks from the memorial is now available. The address begins about a minute in.

♦ July 1, 2010: "Famed Liner Steers Clear of Scrapyard" is published in the WSJ, breaking the news that these ship lovers are about to buy the SS United States.

Accompanied by photographs of the rarely seen
interior of the ship along with a video report.

♦ June 7, 2010: Page One article "In One Home, a Mighty City's Rise and Fall" by Michael M. Phillips wins the Deadline Club award for feature writing.

♦ May 14, 2010: Represented the WSJ in a discussion of ethical journalism alongside Peter Bhatia of the Oregonian and Scott Carney of Wired, in a program led by Prof. Tom Bivins of the University of Oregon.

♦ April/May, 2010: The Journal's Iran coverage, "Hearts, Minds and Blood: The Battle for Iran," wins the Society of Professional Journalists award for outstanding foreign correspondence, the Overseas Press Club award for outstanding reporting abroad, the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award and the Payne Award for Ethics.

"Farnaz Fassihi's courageous reporting gives us
an inside view of the unfolding drama."

~ Overseas Press Club

"Chilling personal tales from both sides of the issue."

~ RFK Award

♦ April 8, 2010: Represented the WSJ in a discussion of fairness in journalism at the Nieman Foundation.

♦ Jan/Feb 2010: "Diary of an Escaped Sex Slave" photos published in Estonian, Greek and Czech Republic editions of Marie Claire.

♦ November 2009: Photos published in Marie Claire magazine, "Diary of an Escaped Sex Slave."

♦ Oct. 3, 2009: Interview on WABC's " John Batchelor Show" about the SS United States:

♦ Sept. 29, 2009: "Fans of World's Fastest Ocean Liner Put Out a Distress Call" published on WSJ Page One.

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