Philip M. Dine

Journalist, Author, Speaker

 

Bio

A Washington-based journalist and author, Philip Dine has covered the labor beat for two decades. Nominated three times for the Pulitzer Prize, Dine received the 2008 Watchdog Award, presented to a TV, radio, newspaper or magazine reporter in Washington "whose work best exemplifies journalism aimed at protecting the public from abuses by those who would betray the public trust."

Interviewing Afghan Security Officials
Philip Dine (with pen) interviewing Afghan security officials in 2006

His book "State of the Unions: How Labor Can Strengthen the Middle Class, Improve Our Economy, and Regain Political Influence" (McGraw-Hill 2008, foreword by Richard Gephardt), was recently selected as one of the best books on labor or work issues of the past five years by the United Association for Labor Education. Dine has been named an adjunct professor of labor-management relations for the 2009 fall semester by the George Washington University School of Business, and he began in the spring as a periodic labor columnist for The Washington Times.

Dine has had commentary pieces published in the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Washington Post, Newsday, Baltimore Sun, Cleveland Plain Dealer, Boston Herald and Providence Journal. He has worked as a reporter, columnist and editor in New England, the Midwest and Washington, and for a decade wrote the only weekly labor column at any metro newspaper (in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch). Fluent in four languages, Dine has reported from more than 20 countries on economic and political issues, particularly in Western and Eastern Europe. He also has reported frequently on military and national security affairs, including conflicts in the Persian Gulf, Kosovo, Afghanistan and behind the Iron Curtain.

Since coming to the nation's capital in 1996, he's been cited seven times for top Washington correspondence by the National Press Club or Society of Professional Journalists' Washington chapter. In 2007 he won the National Press Club's Edwin Hood Award for Diplomatic Correspondence and first place for investigative reporting from the Society of Professional Journalists, for his coverage of Afghanistan's illicit narcotics trade. He also has won an Overseas Press Club award for top foreign reporting, and his labor reporting has been honored by the Society of American Business Editors and Writers.

A New York native, Dine did graduate work at MIT in political science and industrial relations, then spent two years researching the German and French labor movements before going into journalism. He was a Knight fellow for military reporters at the University of Maryland, played a small role in co-founding the journalists' group Military Reporters and Editors, and devised and taught a university course on the media, labor and social change at Webster University in St. Louis.

"State of the Unions" has received broad and bipartisan praise, including from Bill Clinton ("a great book'), Sen. Ted Kennedy ("inspiring"), Tom Ridge ("compelling and provocative look at labor's role in the political, social and economic marketplace") and Bush 41 Federal Mediation director Bernard DeLury ("the author enters areas few media professionals have ever even visited...in this astonishing new book.")

Dine has spoken in the past year about the labor movement's efforts to revive itself, the challenges facing working people, labor's dysfunctional relationship with the media, the Employee Free Choice Act and the auto bailout at the Harvard Business and Law schools, U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Michigan State Bar, National Labor Relations Board, AFL-CIO, National Labor College, Cornell University, Women's Democratic Forum, New England Consortium of State Labor Relations Agencies, California Polytechnic Institute, American Federation of Teachers convention, AFSCME Leadership Academy and numerous other union events, International Labor Communications Association, Labor and Employment Relations Association and the United Association for Labor Education.

He's been interviewed on CNN, Fox, CNBC, MSNBC, C-Span, National Public Radio, XM Satellite Radio and other outlets. The book’s been discussed in Newsweek, New York Times Political Blog, Boston Globe, Philadelphia Inquirer, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, American Prospect, Washington Monthly, Las Vegas Sun and the French national economic newspaper, among others.

 

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