Peter Orvetti

Peter Orvetti was an early political blogger in the United States, running his Orvetti.com political news report from 1997 through 2002. [http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.orvetti.com] He was called "a talented journalist, and completely independent" by former White House Press Secretary Mike McCurry, and his site was favorably compared to the Drudge Report by several Web site reviews. One early reader of the site, and participant in its forums, was Jerome Armstrong of MyDD. Daily Kos also cited Orvetti's early influence in a "brief history." [http://www.dailykos.com/story/2004/8/5/35451/65527]

Orvetti achieved his greatest notoriety on Election Night 2000 and during the following Florida recount. Orvetti.com reportedly received over 1,000,000 unique visits on Election Night, and Orvetti claims he "took back" Florida from the George W. Bush column four minutes before any broadcast network did the same. A political columnist for Japan's multi-million circulation Asahi Shimbun newspaper said Orvetti.com was "particularly useful" for following the returns, and Online Journalism Review noted Orvetti's "pure adrenalized election dispatches."

The Hampshire College graduate attended Divinity School at Harvard but dropped out. After working briefly at the Cato Institute, he served as Deputy Director of Communications for the Libertarian Party in the leadup to the 2000 party convention. He was also the Editor-in-Chief of the Web White and Blue 2000 [http://www.webwhiteblue.org/] online presidential debate project. Since 2000 he has worked for various media organizations, and wrote for a while under the pen name "Cicero" at PoliticalInsider.com [http://www.politicalinsider.com] .

Orvetti also occasionally published op-ed pieces with the Scripps Howard News Service and in various newspapers including the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and the Washington Times.

External links

* [http://www.orvetti.com Orvetti.com]