Matt Katz (born July 4, 1978) is an American journalist.
Career and works
Katz works for
WNYC and
New Jersey Public Radio, and has written for ''
Politico'', ''
The New York Times'', ''
The Washington Post'' and ''
The New Republic.'' He was previously a reporter at ''
The Philadelphia Inquirer'', the ''
Courier-Post
The ''Courier-Post'' is a morning daily newspaper that serves South Jersey in the Delaware Valley. It is based in Cherry Hill, New Jersey and serves most of Burlington, Camden, and Gloucester counties. The paper has 30,313 daily paid subscriber ...
'' and the ''
Daily Record.''
He is known for his coverage of
New Jersey Governor Chris Christie.
[ He ran ''The Christie Tracker'' for New Jersey Public Radio.]Peabody Award
The George Foster Peabody Awards (or simply Peabody Awards or the Peabodys) program, named for the American businessman and philanthropist George Peabody, honor the most powerful, enlightening, and invigorating stories in television, radio, and ...
for its series on Governor Christie entitled, "Chris Christie, White House Ambitions and the Abuse of Power."[ He won the Livingston Award for International Reporting for a series on reconstruction efforts in Afghanistan.][
Prior to becoming a political journalist, Katz was known as South Jersey's Carrie Bradshaw when he wrote a dating advice column.
He is Jewish and asserts that he suffered anti-semitic harassment as a result of reporting critically on U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump.
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Background and education
Katz is the son of Roberta and Richard Katz of Roslyn, New York. He married Deborah Anne Hurwitz in 2004.
Katz has an undergraduate degree in Political Communication from George Washington University. He is member of the Kappa Sigma fraternity.
References
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1978 births
Living people
People from Roslyn, New York
Jewish American journalists
George Washington University School of Media and Public Affairs alumni
Journalists from New Jersey
Livingston Award winners for International Reporting