About ME

Hi! I am an Emmy and Loeb Award-winning, freelance multimedia journalist and producer based in NYC. I am currently working as Senior Producer for the Truth Tellers Summit and a booking producer for Semafor’s live-journalism events.

From 2017 until 2023, I worked as a producer for VICE News Tonight, covering stories in the US and abroad on a broad range of topics — from climate change, politics, criminal justice, housing and labor to cryptocurrency, literature and music. I also produced stories for other VICE shows, including Counter Space, Cryptoland and True Believers.

I won a Gerald Loeb Award and an LA Press Club Award for “SOLD OUT”, a feature documentary I produced for Tubi and VICE on ticket scalping and the live music industry.

Earlier in my career, I produced events for Tina Brown’s Women in the World (in partnership with the New York Times) and have continued working with her on the Truth Tellers Summit as well as the 2024 Aspen Ideas Festival.

I have work(ed) as a freelance writer for Knack, the i, Gazet Van Antwerpen, De Morgen, Opening Ceremony and Red Bull. I’ve reported on everything from “quiet reading parties” in New York to the 2024 Republican National Convention, and interviewed a wide range of people - from Salman Rushdie and Slavoj Zizek to Flying Lotus and Stromae.

I am fluent in Dutch, English, French and Spanish, and can provide translation services. I have also worked as a fixer for documentary productions in Belgium, and done trendspotting work in NYC.

I am currently open to work / available for new projects!

For questions/collaborations/inquiries, please get in touch at colpaert.pieter@gmail.com

Awards & Acknowledgements

Gerald Loeb Award for feature documentary “SOLD OUT” (2024)

LA Press Club Award for feature documentary “SOLD OUT” (2023)

Emmy Award for Outstanding Newscast (2021)

ADC Merit Award for Craft in Motion / Film / Typography (2020)

Emmy Nominated for “Outstanding News Special” (2019)

Education

Columbia University | MA, American Studies | BAEF Fellowship

University of Birmingham | MA, Trans-Atlantic Studies: U.S. Foreign Policy

University of Ghent | BA & MA, English & Spanish