Peter Dujardin has been a reporter for the Daily Press for eight years, all of them on the business desk. He’s covered everything from workplace and technology to airports and transportation to shipbuilding and ports.

In 2002, he won second place in the Virginia Press Association’s newswriting portfolio.

A native of Providence, R.I., Dujardin received an undergraduate degree in political science from Providence College and a master’s in journalism from Northwestern University. He lives in Newport News, Va., with his wife, Tracey.