Martin Peers

Martin Peers is co-executive editor of The Information, where he also writes the nightly Briefing newsletter. He joined The Information as a columnist in September, 2014 and was Managing Editor from 2015 through 2021. In 2024 he won the Loeb Minard editing award. He previously spent 15 years at The Wall Street Journal, including a three year stint as Media and Marketing bureau chief where he oversaw the paper’s coverage of the media and entertainment industries. Before that, he was Deputy Editor of Heard on the Street, the paper’s financial analysis section. Martin was a prolific writer of columns about the convergence of technology and media. He was part of a team of Journal reporters that won the Pulitzer Prize for explanatory reporting in 2003. Before joining the Journal, he covered the business side of the entertainment industry for Daily Variety and Variety in New York. Prior to that he worked for The New York Post and several newspapers in Australia, where he grew up.