Matt Katz

Reporter, WNYC News

Matt Katz appears in the following:

The FBI Is Calling, and Syrian Refugees Are Worried

Wednesday, February 15, 2017

The FBI says it just called some Syrians to say: How are you?

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New York Officials Open Doors to Refugees as New Jersey Shuts Them

Wednesday, February 08, 2017

Both states have large immigrant communities, but vastly different approaches to taking in refugees. What are the implications?

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Travel Ban Puts Some American Families On Hold

Tuesday, January 31, 2017

One New Jersey woman is wondering if she will ever see her parents again, now that the Trump Administration has banned travel from seven majority-Muslim countries.

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Tears, Fears and Sierra Leone Soup at New Jersey's Refugee Cafe

Monday, January 30, 2017

At a cafe run by refugees and political asylees in New Jersey, the magnitude of President Trump's executive edicts reverberate in heartbreaking ways. 

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Syria Supper Club: Reaching Out To Refugees, One Dinner At A Time

Friday, January 27, 2017

In New Jersey, Muslim refugees join groups of mostly Jewish Americans to hold informal dinner parties that are part fundraiser, part bridge-builder.

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Another Mosque, This One in Bayonne, NJ, Faces Opposition From Neighbors

Monday, January 23, 2017

Is it a fear of terrorism, or traffic? One way or the other, it brought hundreds to a zoning meeting in Bayonne, NJ, where a proposal to build a mosque was under consideration.

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WNYC to DC: Anger, not Optimism, Marks Inauguration

Friday, January 20, 2017

The final installment of WNYC's road trip to the inauguration finds our reporters in a dystopic Washington. 

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The Trump Time Capsule: Supporters Share Their Hopes

Friday, January 20, 2017

Listeners who voted for Donald Trump share their hopes for the next four years.

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WNYC to DC: Donald Trump 'Understands Me'

Thursday, January 19, 2017

WNYC’s road trip to the inauguration continues in Maryland, where reporters Arun Venugopal and Matt Katz drop by local hangouts to talk Russia and Trump.

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WNYC to DC: 'Look, It's Not the End of the World'

Wednesday, January 18, 2017

Day Two on the road to DC includes a stop at Planned Parenthood in the working-class suburbs of Philadelphia and a visit to the country's oldest African Methodist Episcopal church. 

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WNYC to DC: 'This Is the Real America'

Tuesday, January 17, 2017

WNYC is taking a road-trip to D.C. and talking to voters about the incoming Trump administration. First stop: Arab and Indian communities in New Jersey.

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WNYC to DC: A Primer

Tuesday, January 17, 2017

WNYC's Matt Katz checks in from Trump Tower before he and WNYC's Arun Venugopal set off on a pre-Inauguration road trip from New York to Washington, D.C.

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Syria Supper Club: Reaching Out to Refugees, One Dinner at a Time

Friday, January 13, 2017

At dinner parties across North Jersey, Jews are raising money for Muslim refugees — and making friends across the cultural divide.

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He Was Fired After Bridgegate. Now He's Headed to White House.

Wednesday, January 04, 2017

Bill Stepien, the former Chris Christie campaign manager fired in the wake of the Bridgegate scandal, will be the new political director in Donald Trump's White House. 

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Fired After Bridgegate. Hired by Trump White House?

Friday, December 16, 2016

Bill Stepien, whose name was mentioned during the Bridgegate trial 351 times, is in line to become Donald Trump's White House political director. 

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The Christie Tracker Podcast Answers Your Questions

Wednesday, November 23, 2016

The professors of Bridgegate respond to calls and letters.

NJ Taxpayers Just Hired Another Lawyer for Christie

Wednesday, November 16, 2016

Christie has a lawyer to defend him in a criminal matter.  For $150-an-hour.  

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The Christie Tracker Podcast: Bridgegatepalooza!

Wednesday, November 16, 2016

Time for some traffic memories.

Episode 9: Where Are We Now?

Thursday, November 10, 2016

WNYC and The Nation take the temperature of a country soon to be under the leadership of Donald J. Trump.

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Political Party with Keli Goff: Election Night Party

Tuesday, November 08, 2016

Join us via live stream for our Election Night party with WNYC, in partnership with Guardian US and Refinery29. Games, commentary and live updates. 

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