Peter James Spielmann (born 1952) is a veteran reporter in the foreign service of The Associated Press, and is an editor and supervisor on AP's North America desk.
In a June 29th, 1989, Spielmann reported the UN said global warming could wipe entire nations off the Earth due to rising ocean levels by the year 2000.
He began his career in journalism working for alternative newsweeklies—the New Times in Tucson, Arizona, and The Bugle-American in Milwaukee, Wisconsin; he earned a B.A.
from Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism in 1984, Spielmann worked as an investigative editor for the CBS Evening News, and joined AP’s International Desk the following year.
[3] In addition, he periodically covers human rights stories and the international impasse over North Korea’s nuclear weapons program.