Celebrated journalist to receive award in Miami ceremony featuring talk on antisemitism
Storied journalist Peter Maer will be honored with a prestigious award next month in a ceremony that will feature a fireside chat centered around antisemitism.
Mosaic Miami, a nonprofit dedicated to fostering unity and inclusivity within the community, is presenting Maer, a former CBS News White House correspondent, with the Hank Meyer Headliner Award for his storytelling that highlights individuals striving for a more unified society, the organization said.
The award ceremony will be at 5:30 p.m. Feb. 6 at the Sanctuary of the Arts, 410 Andalusia Ave., Coral Gables. Jane Wooldridge, the Miami Herald’s senior director for journalism sustainability and partnerships, will host the event.
Maer covered the Civil Rights Movement in Atlanta in the 1970s, and interviewed the Rev. Martin Luther King Sr. days after his wife, Alberta Williams King, was shot at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta. In 1988, on a trip to Moscow with President Reagan, he broadcast the stories of Jews who were refused permission to leave the then-Soviet Union.
“While I have always strived to be an objective reporter, there is no objectivity, no “other side” when it comes to shining the glaring spotlight on all forms of bigotry and those who perpetrate hatred,” Maer said in a statement. “From my earliest days as a reporter in small-town Illinois to my years of covering national news, I reported as I saw it.”
The event will also feature a chat between Maer and Kelvin Pierce, author of “Sins of My Father: Growing Up with America’s Most Dangerous White Supremacist.” Pierce was the son of William Pierce, who was called the “Neo-Nazi Godfather” and authored “The Turner Diaries,” which Timothy McVeigh used as his blueprint for the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995.
Tickets are still being sold for $60.
This story was originally published January 30, 2025 at 8:00 AM.
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