Peter Lance  Peter Lance is an American journalist and author. He is a five-time winner of the News & Documentary Emmy Award, the recipient of a Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award, and other accolades detailed below. In April 2010, Lance was appointed as a one-year Visiting Scholar at The Orfalea Center for Global & International Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Peter Anthony Lance was born in Newport, Rhode Island, the son of Joseph James Lance, a Navy Chief who had served on the USS "Arkansas" (BB-33) in World War II. His mother was Albina Marie Lance, the former deputy clerk for the Superior Court in Newport. Lance attended public grammar schools and was valedictorian of his class in 1966 at De La Salle Academy, a Catholic Christian Brothers boys high school. He majored in philosophy at Northeastern University in Boston where he was Managing Editor of the student newspaper, "The Northeastern News". While a student, Lance worked weekends as a news producer for WEEI, the former CBS radio owned and operated station in Boston. After getting a B.A. from Northeastern in 1971 he earned an M.S. at The Columbia Graduate School of Journalism in 1972 and later a J.D. from Fordham University School of Law in 1978. Lance began his journalism career as a cub reporter for "The Newport Daily News" while a student at Northeastern University. In his second summer with the paper he researched and reported a four-part investigative series on slum housing in Newport that won the 11th Annual Sevellon Brown Award given by the New England Associated Press Managing Editor's Association. Working as a researcher for Ralph Nader's Center for The Study of Responsive Law, Lance spent one month each living with the families of a brick layer, a garbage collector and a policeman in Boston as part of a study that was published as "The Workers: Portraits of Nine American Job Holders." Lance contributed research and writing to the book, authored by Kenneth Lasson. Retrieved August 29, 2012. "The Workers" was one of dozens of books and reports produced during Nader's summer "task forces" during 1969–72, the interns of which came to be known as "Nader's Raiders". In 1972, after graduating from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, Lance worked as the assistant to the program director at WNET-TV, the PBS flagship station in New York. He soon began producing for "The 51st State", a nightly news magazine where he won the first of his two New York Area Emmy awards for "The Great American Land Hustle" Part One.