Richard Miniter

Richard Miniter (born 1967) is an investigative journalist and author of two New York Times best selling books, Losing bin Laden and Shadow War. He is a former editorial page writer for The Wall Street Journal Europe, member of the Sunday Times (of London) Insight team of investigative reporters, and editorial page editor of the Washington Times.

He has been published in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal Christian Science Monitor, The Atlantic Monthly, The New Republic, National Review and Reader's Digest, among others publications. In addition, his articles have appeared in newspapers throughout Europe, Asia and Australia.

Hired by Wall Street Journal editor Robert Bartley in 2000, Miniter was sent to Brussels as an editorial page writer at The Wall Street Journal Europe and editor of its weekly "Business Europe" column. He also wrote a weekly column, "The Visible Hand", for The Wall Street Journals OpinionJournal.com.

Miniter was the editorial page editor and Vice President of Opinion at The Washington Times from March until October 2009.

In September 2010, the case of Miniter v. Moon et al. and the related EEOC complaint was settled. Miniter refused to disclose the terms, but said "I am very, very happy the just and equitable outcome.

In early 2002, Miniter was contracted to write a book that became Losing bin Laden. He would spend the next 18 months reporting from Khartoum, Cairo, Frankfurt, Hamburg, London, Paris and Washington, D.C. to offer an account of the bin Laden menace during the Clinton years. It became a New York Times bestseller, peaking at no. 10 in September 2003. Losing bin Laden was cited on NBC's Meet the Press by host Tim Russert.

Miniter's next book was drawn from on the ground reporting in Iraq, Kuwait, Egypt, Sudan, Hong Kong, Singapore and the Philippines. Shadow War: The Untold Story of How America is Winning the War on Terror became his second New York Times bestseller, debuting at no.7.

Miniter's next book was entitled Disinformation: 22 Media Myths That Undermine the War on Terror.

In 2006, he edited Ayaan Hirsi Ali's bestselling book Infidel in Paris, France.

In 2007 Miniter and five other conservative authors sued Eagle Publishing, claiming that it had sold their books at a steep discount to book clubs owned by the same parent company, thus depriving them of royalties. The judge ruled that the case was invalid because the authors had contracts with Regnery, a subsidiary of Eagle, which contained binding arbitration clauses. The case is ongoing.

Minter's books currently in print include:

1. Myth of Market Share
2. Losing bin Laden
3. Shadow War
4. Disinformation
5. Mastermind