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:
Connecticut Reopens Some Businesses
Thursday, May 21, 2020
Deaths Of Single Adults In Homeless Shelters Far Outpace City Average
Tuesday, May 19, 2020
With Their Jobs Deemed Illegal, Hair Stylists and Barbers Go Underground
Monday, May 18, 2020
Those Homeless From The Subway? Most Aren't Ending Up In Shelters.
Thursday, May 14, 2020
Reports Of Domestic Violence Aren't Going Up. That Doesn't Mean It's Not Happening.
Thursday, May 14, 2020
City's Effort To House Subway Homeless Comes Up Short
Monday, May 11, 2020
City Council Moves Against GrubHub And Other Restaurant Apps
Monday, May 11, 2020
Music Venues Scramble To Survive Amid COVID-19 Shutdown
Friday, May 08, 2020
Struggling Restaurants Say Delivery Apps Like Grubhub Make it Harder to Survive
Tuesday, May 05, 2020
The 2,200 People Who Overnight In Subways Need To Find A New Place To Sleep
Monday, May 04, 2020
'Death Of A City' As NYC Restaurants Shutter, Maybe For Good
Tuesday, April 28, 2020
A Third of New York City Food Pantries Have Shut Down, Swelling Bread Lines
Monday, April 27, 2020
NYC's Single Adult Shelter Census Reaches Record High
Friday, April 17, 2020
Coronavirus Victim, Leroy Hammett, Remembered As A Pillar In His South Bronx Community
Thursday, April 16, 2020
One Worker's Experience on the Morgue Overflow Shift
Thursday, April 16, 2020
NJ Lawmakers Move Forward With Tenant Protections, NY Lags Behind
Wednesday, April 15, 2020
City Starts Moving Seniors Out Of Congregate Homeless Shelters
Tuesday, April 07, 2020
Network of Charities and Volunteers Feed New York's Seniors
Monday, April 06, 2020
A Super-Contagious Disease Comes To An Overcrowded City
Thursday, April 02, 2020
City Continues Breaking Up Homeless Encampments, Despite CDC Guidelines
Monday, March 30, 2020
