Matt Katz reports on air at WNYC about immigration, refugees, national security and hate. He covered New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie for more than five years, first for The Philadelphia Inquirer and then for WNYC and New Jersey Public Radio. He followed the governor through scandal and presidential candidacy and appeared weekly on WNYC Studios' Christie Tracker Podcast.
In 2015 Matt and a team from WNYC won a Peabody Award for their coverage of Christie and the Bridgegate scandal. The series -- Chris Christie, White House Ambitions and the Abuse of Power -- was WNYC's first Peabody for news coverage since 1944. In 2016, Matt's biography of Christie -- American Governor: Chris Christie's Bridge to Redemption -- was published by Simon & Schuster's Threshold Editions. Matt's experience covering Christie also shaped his 2016 TedX talk, Political Deceit in a Social Media Age.
Matt has written about politics for The Washington Post, The New York Times, The New Republic and POLITICO. Before covering the Statehouse in Trenton he spent time in Afghanistan, writing a series on reconstruction efforts for The Philadelphia Inquirer that won the Livingston Award for International Reporting for journalists under the age of 35. In 2009 his four-part investigation about Camden set the stage for an end to the state's takeover of city government. Prior to that, he was an award-winning reporter and syndicated dating columnist at The Courier-Post in New Jersey. He started his career covering local school board, zoning and council meetings for The Daily Record in New Jersey.
Matt has two young children, Sadie and Reuben, who listen to a lot of WNYC. Find him on Twitter @mattkatz00. Read more of Matt's latest reporting on Gothamist.
Matt Katz appears in the following:
What Local News Means to You
Tuesday, October 12, 2021
CBC's 'The Flamethrowers' and the History of Right-Wing Radio
Tuesday, October 12, 2021
'Vasily Kandinsky: Around the Circle' at the Guggenheim
Tuesday, October 12, 2021
Kate Has A Plan — Oct. 12, 2021
Tuesday, October 12, 2021
Andie MacDowell in 'Maid'
Tuesday, October 12, 2021
Bergen Is the Latest, and Last, New Jersey County To End Cooperation with ICE
Wednesday, October 06, 2021
In Major Shift, ICE Detains Few Immigrants in New Jersey Jails. What Happened?
Thursday, September 23, 2021
N.J. Mayor: No Afghan Refugees, Until We Recover From Ida
Monday, September 20, 2021
Uprooted, Yet Again: 150 Resettled Refugees in New Jersey Were Displaced During Tropical Storm Ida
Wednesday, September 15, 2021
How 9/11 Altered NYPD Surveillance
Wednesday, September 08, 2021
NYPD’s Legacy of Police Surveillance, From Black Panthers to Mosques to Black Lives Matter
Sunday, September 05, 2021
New Jersey Released Police Misconduct List -- With Names
Tuesday, August 10, 2021
Federal Monitor Poised To Oversee New Jersey's Troubled Women's Prison
Tuesday, August 10, 2021
New Jerseyans Wanted To Buy Legal Weed. Just Not -- Yet -- In Their Towns.
Thursday, August 05, 2021
NJ Supreme Court Limits Traffic Stops for Obstruction of License Plates
Monday, August 02, 2021
Hitler-Mustachioed Reservist Accused in Jan. 6th Riot Offered Plea Deal
Sunday, August 01, 2021
NYC Now Has Its Own Covid Vax App
Sunday, August 01, 2021
'We're Not Teaching Sodomy In 6th Grade': GOP Nominee For N.J. Governor Wants To End State's LGBTQ Curriculum
Tuesday, July 13, 2021
Listening Party: The 'Debut' Album from Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis
Friday, July 09, 2021
The Making of Hasidic Williamsburg
Friday, July 09, 2021
