Peter Werbe is a long-time figure in alternative and commercial media in Detroit, and a political activist. He is a member of the editorial collective of the Fifth Estate magazine. His articles that have appeared there are available in the publication's online archive.

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His professional career was as a DJ on Detroit's major rock stations, WABX, WWWW. WRIF, and WCSX. He hosted Nightcall, WRIF's phone-in talk show, that was the longest running such program in U.S. radio history, 1970-2016.

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He is the author of Summer On Fire: A Detroit Novel and Eat the Rich & Other Interesting Ideas

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