Matt Apuzzo

Matt Apuzzo (born October 20, 1978) is an American journalist.

Early life

Apuzzo was born in Cumberland, Maine and attended Colby College, where he edited the school newspaper, the Colby Echo.

Career

He wrote for the Waterville ''Morning Sentinel'' while in college. He then worked for ''The Standard-Times'' in New Bedford, Massachusetts before moving to the Associated Press. He reported on New York City Police Department corruption and misconduct and revealed its collaboration with the CIA to conduct surveillance in Muslim communities. He won the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting with Adam Goldman, Eileen Sullivan and Chris Hawley. In 2013, Apuzzo co-wrote a book with Adam Goldman called ''Enemies Within''.

In 2013, it was revealed that the Justice Department secretly subpoenaed his phone records as part of a leak investigation into who provided the Associated Press information about a bomb plot foiled by the CIA. It was later revealed that the Justice Department had conducted leak investigations into his stories twice before. He has been highly critical of government secrecy and the media's willingness to accept it.

Since 2013, he has worked for ''The New York Times'' and teaches journalism at Georgetown University. At the ''Times'', Apuzzo broke several stories about the Justice Department's civil rights efforts and national security prosecutions. In January 2015, he broke the story about how the FBI and Justice Department were recommending that the former C.I.A. director David Petraeus be charged with a felony in connection with disclosing sensitive national security information. In April 2015, Apuzzo and his colleague Michael S. Schmidt revealed the video footage of a white police officer in North Charleston, South Carolina, shooting an unarmed black man running away from him.

In July 2015, a story by Apuzzo and Michael S. Schmidt about the Hillary Clinton email controversy drew criticism from Mrs. Clinton's campaign and her supporters, including from the ''Times'' public editor Margaret Sullivan. The ''Washington Post'' media columnist Erik Wemple in April 2017 cleared Apuzzo and Schmidt of wrongdoing in connection with story, saying if anything the ''Times'' had understated the severity of how seriously the government was investigating Mrs. Clinton.

Apuzzo and two other ''Times'' reporters authored a series of stories in 2016 about how American torture policies in the years after the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, had led to long lasting mental health issues for those detainees tortured by Americans. The stories were one of the first accounts of the mental health toll created by American torture policies.

In June 2018, the ''Times'' announced Apuzzo had been appointed Investigative Correspondent in Brussels and would be moving from the Washington bureau to join the International Desk from August 2018. In April 2022, the ''Times'' announced that Apuzzo would become its first International Investigations Editor.

Awards

In 2018, Apuzzo shared in the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for deeply sourced, relentlessly reported coverage in the public interest that dramatically furthered the nation’s understanding of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election and its connections to the Trump campaign's ties to Russia.

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The New York Times people
Colby College alumni
Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting winners
Journalists from Maine
People from Cumberland, Maine
Living people
George Polk Award recipients
1978 births