Matt Peiken

I've spent my entire professional life as a journalist. I most recently spent 5-1/2 years with the NPR affiliate in Asheville, NC, leaving in February 2023 to launch Podcast Asheville and The Overlook with Matt Peiken podcast.

Here’s a story the Mountain Xpress newspaper produced about the work I’m doing with The Overlook (May 10, 2023). Readers of that publication voted The Overlook the region’s best podcast in 2023 and 2024.

I came to public radio after a long career in print journalism—most notably, 10 years as an arts and features staff writer with the St. Paul Pioneer Press. I later reported on the arts for the digital arm of WCPO-TV in Cincinnati.

I've founded, produced and managed a variety of podcasts and online publications, including the video program 3-Minute Egg and the community op-ed page Opine Season. I've also served as managing editor of the Walker Art Center's magazine and was a longtime contributing writer to Modern Drummer Magazine.

I’ve won regional journalism awards from the Society of Professional Journalists, the Associated Press, Radio Television Digital News Alliance of the Carolinas and the California Newspaper Publishers Association.