Peter Overby

Columbia Journalism Review says that when it comes to covering political money, "NPR's Peter Overby... as they say, 'owns the story.'" Overby has been tracking money and politics for 10 years. In 1994, he became the first reporter on NPR's Power, Money and Influence beat.

A graduate of Boston University's College of Communication, two daily papers and Common Cause Magazine, Overby has either shared or won an Investigative Reporters and Editors Award for Outstanding Investigative Journalism, two Project Censored citations for digging out under-reported stories, and an Alternative Press Award for investigative journalism.  His work has appeared in the Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Philadelphia Inquirer, Reader's Digest, Utne Reader, Columbia Journalism Review, The Washington Monthly, and the Nieman Report at Harvard University.

He also has spoken on campaign finance reporting at conferences of IRE, the DuPont Forum at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism, National Council of State Legislatures and Radio and Television News Directors Foundation.