I’m a reporter with The Columbus Dispatch in Ohio, covering immigration, new American communities and religion.
From 2014 until early 2021, I was based in Kathmandu and covered Nepali politics, the environment, human rights issues, and more for the Nepali and international press. I’m mostly a writer, but I also co-produced an episode for the Queens Memory Podcast 2022 about Nepalis living in Queens, and I’ve produced some videos, too.
Besides The Columbus Dispatch, my work has appeared in The Diplomat, Yale Envrionment 360, Internazionale, World Politics Review, The Wire, Scroll.in, Himal Southasian, GEO magazine, Himal Khabarpatrika, The Kathmandu Post, Kantipur, Seto Pati, The Record, and elsewhere. In 2020, my colleague Abha Lal and I were short-listed for the True Story Award, the first global journalism prize, for an investigation into the Nepali police’s mishandling of a murder case. Another article I wrote, for The Center For Investigative Journalism Nepal and The Kathmandu Post, revealed how Nepalis were cheated of insurance compensation by American government contractors in Afghanistan. In 2022, I received the second-place award for Minority Issues Reporting from the Society of Professional Journalists in Ohio. You can find examples of my best writing here.
After growing up in Nepal, I earned degrees in history and forestry in the US. I speak English and Nepali fluently, and Spanish, Hindi, and Wolof at an intermediate level. Check out my old blog, about my experiences as a Peace Corps volunteer in Senegal, here .
Contact me at hi[at]petermgill [dot]com.
Special thanks to my great friend Jigdel for making me this website! (He’s the guy on the left.)
