Peter Byrne
 |
Radio: Bio of investigative journalist Peter Byrne
July 10, 2005
|
|
Northern California-based journalist Peter Byrne has an uncanny ability to mine reportable nuggets of graft and corruption out of mountains of government and corporate records — not to mention human sources. He knows how to get inside the soul of self-serving systems — be they created by left-wingers, neocons, or non-ideologically-inspired criminals — and find the facts. Byrne’s story "Death, Maiming, Money & Muni" was a finalist in 2004 for the Investigative Award given by Investigative Reporters & Editors. This hard-hitting expose of San Francisco’s transit system also won first place for investigative reporting from the Association of Alternative Weeklies this year.
Byrne has received national, regional, and local recognition for investigative work, writing style, and in-depth profiles of politicians, grifters, grafters, and…artists (for whom he has a soft spot). He also writes compellingly about new developments in physics, quantum computation, and stock car racing. Byrne likes to take tough, complex subjects and explicate them in ordinary language for normal people. He figures that if he can understand exactly how people steal money from the government and get away with it, or how reality-shifting media organizations owned by defense contractors are able to brainwash millions of people into working against the interest of the human species — then he can explain how it works to the reader.
He loves reading purloined documents, and taking whistleblowers out to lunch at fancy restaurants.
Year-End Roundup with Robert Dreyfuss, James Ridgeway, Julia Whitty, and Others
Robert Dreyfuss, Mother Jones correspondent
|
