As a televison reporter Peter ter Velde reported from many war zones and crisis areas such as Iraq, Israel, Palestine, Lebanon, Egypt, Haiti and Indonesia. From 1996 to 2001, Peter was an Israel based correspondent for the Dutch national broadcaster NOS. From 2006 to 2010 he was a special reporter on Afghanistan where he stayed for 4 to 5 months a year. Back in the Netherlands Peter developed the training ‘Reporting in Conflict Zones’ that is given a couple of times a year by the academy of the Journalists Union. He is also instructor of the Hostile Environment Safety Training of the European Broadcasting Union. In 2015 Peter became Security Coordinator for NOS News. He is member of the Crisis Management Team of the NOS. In 2019 he also became project manager of PersVeilig, an initiative by national police, the prosecutor’s office and the media industry to make work for journalists in the Netherlands safer. Peter is owner of the company PTV-Training.
