Peter Murray

Writer, Marketer, and Storyteller

United States

I'm storyteller with experience in journalism who now specializes in copywriting, blogging and developing other original content for B2B & B2B2C SaaS startups.

Portfolio

Payability - Faster Payments for Amazon Sellers

Give Lively - Fundraising Software for Nonprofits

Investigative Reporting

The Georgetowner
08/10/2015
Critics Claim Racial Bias in Georgetown Digital Crime Prevention

A special investigative report on technology and profiling in Georgetown. The rapid recent pace of technological innovation has triggered a new era of policing, one in which crime fighting is based almost entirely on data - captured, analyzed and communicated using the latest digital tools.

CBS This Morning
10/15/2015
Stores using app to detect shoplifters accused of racial profiling

VIDEO: Some businesses in an upscale Washington, D.C. neighborhood are accused of racial profiling through a mobile app that allows shopkeepers to alert each other -- and police -- through private messaging about people acting suspiciously in their stores, reports CBS News correspondent Jeff Pegues.

The Georgetowner
10/19/2015
Georgetown BID To Shut Down, Reconsider GroupMe Crime Prevention Thread

The Georgetown Business Improvement District said it will take its GroupMe account offline following an August investigative report by The Georgetowner and a follow-up piece by the Washington Post that identified a man who was wrongfully arrested because he resembled a known thief flagged by users of GroupMe.

Arts & Architecture

Architectural Digest
12/20/2016
The Most Exciting Uses of Virtual Reality Right Now

Virtual reality platforms may not be ubiquitous quite yet, but the technology is already revolutionizing how designers, architects, and artists work, and how the rest of us experience their art.

Architectural Digest
10/10/2016
4 Spectacular New York City Carriage Houses

Carriage houses represent some of New York’s most sought-after real estate, in large part because they combine the quaintness and charm of the old city with the modern luxuries of the new. Here are four standouts that blend rich history with stately architecture.

The Georgetowner
02/17/2015
Whimsy and Worship: the Eccentric Piero di Cosimo's Works at the National Gallery

Piero di Cosimo's paintings never reached the canon of High Renaissance art inhabited by Leonardo, Michelangelo, Raphael and even Giorgione works. Yet his pieces, a myriad of which are on exhibit now at the National Gallery, show a fun-loving, eccentric artist bounding from style to style all while demonstrating the aristocratic tastes of that period in which both whimsical mythology and devout adoration were sought after for personal consumption.

The Downtowner
09/08/2015
Fall Music Highlights

A 3-page spread print roundup of the best concerts to see in DC during Fall 2015.

Architectural Digest
The Best Resort Towns in America

Staying at a resort can be relaxing, cost-effective, and convenient, but it often means being cut off from the outside world in a bubble of tourists, free food, and scheduled activities.

Music & Arts Features