1.
About
Peter’s journey has taken him
from Beirut to the Beltway — from a war zone to the war rooms of two U.S.
presidential campaigns. He has advised major political figures, including Hillary
Clinton, Arlen Specter and John Kerry, and was described by the New
York Times as “one of the most prominent political bloggers in the
nation.” A consultant to the Clinton Global Initiative from its inception
until 2014, he has organized media roundtables for President Bill Clinton and
has crafted digital strategies for the UN Foundation, Department of Energy,
Bloomberg Philanthropies, Intel, AARP, and Action Against Hunger, among others.
Peter grew up in Lebanon and lived through a decade of sectarian strife,
undergoing three years of compulsory military service. He moved to New York
City to attend NYU and has gone on to attain national recognition in three
fields: as a blogger and activist, a political strategist, and, during the 90s,
as a writer/producer.
Background
Peter lived in Beirut
during the Lebanese civil war and survived years of urban warfare, from
artillery and gun battles to kidnappings and car bombs. He was steps away from
the American embassy when it was demolished by a suicide bomber. At 15, he was
conscripted into the Lebanese
Forces (a Christian militia) and received combat training for three years.
He moved to New York in the 80s to pursue his BA in Philosophy at NYU.
Music
During the 90s, Peter was a
sought-after keyboardist, engineer and producer, appearing on recordings by
Bjork, Miles Davis, Diana Ross and Mariah Carey, among many others. An
accomplished jazz pianist, he was signed to Columbia/Sony and Universal,
producing three #1 Billboard Club singles. He toured and performed with
prominent DJs, including Moby, and was featured in Vibe, URB, Spin, Billboard
and TIME.
Advocacy
Peter rose to prominence as a
political blogger in the aftermath of the 2000 election. His widely-read essay,
The Triangle, was described by techPresident
as “a seminal essay on the interaction between the blogosphere, the political
establishment, and the press.” He has been cited by news outlets from the AP to
the Wall Street Journal and has spoken at venues including Harvard Business
School and the National Press Club.
Advising
Peter was among the first
Internet staffers to work in a presidential campaign war room, directing online
outreach and rapid response for John Kerry’s 2004 campaign. For his work in the
political blogosphere, the Washington Post said Peter had helped pioneer “a
whole new way of campaigning.” In 2007, he was named Internet Director for
Hillary Clinton for President and remained an adviser until 2009.
2.
Clients
Peter has served as a
digital strategist to leading organizations and campaigns.
3.
Media
Peter has appeared in
major publications as a digital media analyst and political
strategist.
BBC News
“One of the great misfortunes
and injustices of this election is a complete marginalization of Hillary
Clinton supporters,” Daou told BBC Trending. “You see all these profiles of
Trump supporters and their anger and rage, yet somehow she’s winning. [LINK]
New York Times
Nick Merrill, a spokesman for
Mrs. Clinton, viewed Shareblue more as a necessary voice in a world teeming
with conservative radio, television and internet outlets that fire up the
Republican base. Of Mr. Daou, he added, “He has a great sense of what’s moving
around and where in the depths of the Twittersphere.” [LINK]
Yahoo News
Daou says #HillaryMen is about
having a comfortable forum for men to openly express their support of a female
candidate. Daou was an early political blogger and a veteran of both John
Kerry’s 2004 presidential campaign and Clinton’s 2008 bid for the Democratic
nomination, where he served as senior digital adviser. [LINK]
Reuters
“After being diagnosed with
pneumonia, Hillary Clinton ran a two-hour national security meeting, gave a
press conference, and spent an hour and a half in the heat at a September 11
event,” said Peter Daou, who worked for Clinton in the past and now has a
communications firm. [LINK]
Wall Street Journal
What helps drive traffic to the
Huffington Post is its unusual mix of straight news stories and blog postings,
such as Peter Daou’s musings on the role that the Internet played in the
national elections. [LINK]
ABC News
Campaign Internet strategists
say the political engagement in cyberspace is reshaping the landscape. “It’s
good for our democracy,” Peter Daou told ABC News. “You use the tools as a means
to engage with people and to connect with them, and have them connect with one
another.” [LINK]
C-SPAN: Google Election
Panel
Panelists
Peter Daou, Joe Rospars, Mindy Finn, and Mark Soohoo talked about new
technology and communications tools being used in political campaigns. “Running
the First 21st Century Campaign” held in the D.C. offices of Google. Ron
Brownstein moderated. [VIDEO]
C-SPAN: New Yorker Political
Panel
Ken Auletta moderated, “The
Impact of the Internet on the Presidential Race.” Panelists Arianna Huffington, Peter Daou,
and Mark McKinnon talked about the ways in which elections have been
changed by the Internet that will probably increase in future elections. [VIDEO]
C-SPAN: Personal Democracy
Forum
Panel discussion on the
internet strategies used by the 2008 presidential candidates. Topics included
candidates’ internet skill levels, social software applications, and how social
software can be applied to governing. Andrew Rasiej and Micah Sifry moderated. [VIDEO]
Washington Post
New
York Sen. Hillary Clinton pulled off a major coup in her evolving relationship
with the liberal blogosphere. She hired Peter Daou, author of the Daou Report (a
blog on Salon.com) and the director of blog
operations for the 2004 presidential campaign of Sen. John Kerry. [LINK]
Politico
“The right’s messaging
apparatus — talk radio, Fox, Drudge — is remarkably sturdy in the
digital age and Democratic leaders and strategists are still at a loss about
how to deal with it,” lamented Peter Daou, an online strategist and former
Hillary Clinton adviser. [LINK]
New York Magazine
The Colbert speech, which was
broadcast on C-span, was all over YouTube within an hour, and the clips were
viewed 2.7 million times over the next two days. Peter Daou on Salon called it
“a biting rebuke of George W. Bush and the lily-livered press corps.” [LINK]
4.
Writing
I’ve
spent 15 years as a progressive activist working within the Democratic Party.
In the aftermath of November 8th, I’ve shared some of my thoughts on the
way forward in two tweetstorms, compiled below. First, I want to dispense with
all the hand-wringing and overwrought analysis of Hillary’s Electoral
College loss. The reality is painfully simple: Her […]
Tobacco companies sell death and disease to the public. Smokers pay
tobacco companies to murder them. Cigarettes are sticks of poison that wreak
havoc on humans and the earth. If current trends continue, tobacco will cause
up to one billion deaths in the 21st century. Trillions of filters, filled with
toxic chemicals, are discarded every […]
The New York Times writes: Solitary confinement can be psychologically
damaging for any inmate, but it is especially perverse when it is used to
discipline children and teenagers. At juvenile detention centers and adult
prisons and jails across the country, minors are locked in isolated cells for
22 hours or more a day. A recent […]
Over the course of the past year, I have been subjected to some of the
most aggressive trolling and personal attacks of my 15 year political
career. Virtually all of it stems from my advocacy for Hillary Clinton. In
recent months, those vicious attacks on my character have taken a very dark
turn. And I intend to […]
I spent the summer of 2015 chronicling the avalanche of attacks against
Hillary Clinton at #HillaryMen. My co-founder Tom Watson and I dedicated
ourselves to the task of wading through the myriad insults, smears,
character attacks, negative frames, sexism and misogyny that have marked the
2016 presidential race. In November, we put HillaryMen on hiatus as […]
I love America. I love America because it afforded me the opportunity
to start a new life when my old life fell apart in a torrent of bombs and
bullets. I’m the son of a Lebanese father and an American mother. I’ve had the
great privilege of being born a U.S. citizen while also having roots […]
A personal epiphany about race and gender, to my fellow white
males: No matter how sincerely we think we get it, we don’t really get it. I’ll
explain. It started in 2012 when I met Leela at the iconic Greenwich
Village jazz club Smalls. Leela (pictured right) is of Indian heritage but is
ethnically ambiguous and is regularly […]
UPDATE (1/6/17): I wrote this in the aftermath of the Charleston
massacre and updated it after subsequent mass shootings. Now we hear of a
slaughter at Fort Lauderdale airport. The points I make below apply in each
case. This is the age of fame for fame’s sake, the strange loop of becoming
famous for becoming famous, […]
Our individual perspective on race and justice is a product of our
background, our upbringing, our experiences, our identity, our own moral code.
I see America through the eyes of a Lebanese-American, married to a woman of
color, raised in a war zone. I have spent the past two decades as a progressive
activist and […]
In the early months of 2004, I sent an alert to
the senior staff of John Kerry’s presidential campaign. I was alarmed about a
growing online movement questioning his Vietnam service. Sites like Winter
Soldier, Free Republic, and others were buzzing with anti-Kerry activity and I
sensed a storm heading Kerry’s way. My role as […]
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Music
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Contact
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