Peter Imber

Peter Imber has lived in Maine since 2010 with my wife Jo Dondis. She was born here. He’s from away. He grew up in Pennsylvania and graduated from Dartmouth College in 1969. After landing his first job out of college at CBS News and beginning a career in television news he left after two years and went to live on a kibbutz in Israel. He plowed fields, milked cows, got married (the first time) and served in the Israeli army.

He wound his way back to video work in Israel and returned to the United States in 1979 to attend film school at UCLA. In 1983 he was hired as a videotape editor in the Los Angeles Bureau of ABC News and after a few years became a producer for ABC News broadcasts, including World News Tonight with Peter Jennings and Nightline with Ted Koppel.

Peter covered the Los Angeles riots in the wake of the Rodney King beating, the O.J. Simpson trial, the Columbine school shooting, the Exxon Valdez oil spill, the overthrow of Ferdinand Marcos, wildfires, earthquakes and presidential campaigns. Along the way his work was nominated for National News Emmys four times, winning once and he received a DuPont-Columbia and a National Press Club Award.

In Camden he became a volunteer with the Camden Conference and was a past president of the Conference. He’s also taught courses at local senior colleges and lectured on television news as well as the history of the television sitcom.