Matthew Schuerman has worked at WNYC since December 2007, as reporter, newscast editor, and most recently, senior editor with a special focus on housing, the urban environment, sustainability, transportation and infrastructure.
In 2017, a multimedia series Schuerman oversaw in conjunction with other nonprofit partners, The Harlem Heat Project, won the Edward R. Murrow Award for Excellence in Innovation from the RTNDA. A week-long collaboration Schuerman undertook with CityLimits.org in 2015, The Cost of Our Water, won a second-place Headliner Award from the Atlantic City Press Club in the radio documentary category. He co-produced a two-part story on construction worker deaths with Cindy Rodriguez in 2008 that won a a Best Enterprise Reporting prize from Public Radio News Directors Inc. Schuerman has also contributed to other public radio shows, including Morning Edition, All Things Considered, Marketplace and Reveal.
He is also the author of the forthcoming Newcomers: Gentrification and Its Discontents (University of Chicago Press, November 2019), a chronicle of gentrification in New York, Chicago and San Francisco. An article he wrote on the de-industrialization of New York City was included in the 2007 book, The Suburbanization of New York: Is the World's Greatest City Becoming Just Another Town? (Princeton Architectural Press).
Schuerman came to radio from The New York Observer, where he covered economic development. Earlier, he was an associate editor at Worth Magazine, and freelanced for The Village Voice, Fortune, City Limits, and other publications. He began his journalism career at The Day, a daily in New London, Connecticut, covering town news, schools and higher education.
A native of Chicago, Schuerman graduated from Harvard College magna cum laude. He received a master's degree from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill.
Matthew Schuerman appears in the following:
After Upper West Siders Succeed In Moving Out Homeless Hotel, Can Other Neighborhoods Be Far Behind?
Wednesday, September 30, 2020
NYCHA Looks To Let In More People With Criminal Convictions
Wednesday, September 23, 2020
Child Advocates Urge Mayor To Address Obstacles Facing Homeless Students
Wednesday, September 16, 2020
As New Academic Year Begins, Homeless Students Face Many Challenges
Wednesday, September 16, 2020
NYC Hires School Nurses To Fill Vacancies, But COVID Chaos Persists
Wednesday, September 16, 2020
Shelter Residents Criticize Mayor De Blasio's Decision To Move Them Out Of Upper West Side
Wednesday, September 09, 2020
Why Are Democratic Leaders Stumping For A Tax Policy That Benefits The Rich?
Wednesday, September 09, 2020
While Some Arts Institutions Flounder, One Found A Way To Pivot
Friday, September 04, 2020
Budget Watchers Say Healthcare Premiums Can Plug City Deficit
Wednesday, September 02, 2020
NYCHA Leaders Stump For Trump, But They Don't All Support Him
Friday, August 28, 2020
Use Of Hotels To House Homeless New Yorkers In Question After Community Opposition
Thursday, August 27, 2020
Homeless Testing COVID Positive At Lower Rates Than City's General Population
Monday, August 24, 2020
Malliotakis Paints Apocalyptic Vision In Race For Congress
Monday, August 24, 2020
Companies With Problematic Pasts Got Government Loans
Tuesday, August 18, 2020
Pre-pandemic, Homelessness Increased on Streets And Decreased in Subways
Sunday, August 16, 2020
One-Third Of New York City Residents Have Lost Their Jobs, Report Says
Thursday, August 13, 2020
Amid Covid-19 Pandemic, Formerly Homeless Family Deals With Job Loss
Thursday, July 23, 2020
Insurgents Pick Up Seats As New York Primary Results Trickle In
Thursday, July 23, 2020
De Blasio Scales Back NYPD 'Outreach' To Homeless
Friday, July 17, 2020
At Defund Police Encampment, The Homeless Find Food and Shelter
Wednesday, July 08, 2020
