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:
One Anti-Immigrant Order Trump Didn't Sign
Tuesday, January 19, 2021
COVID Vaccine Moves Out Of Large Institutions Into Small Medical Practices
Thursday, January 07, 2021
Cannabis Legislation In NJ Remains Stalled Despite Referendum
Friday, January 01, 2021
Amid Pandemic, Chronically Homeless Man Gets His Own Home
Wednesday, December 23, 2020
NYC Unemployment Decreases, But Still Lags Behind The Rest Of The Country
Friday, December 18, 2020
Young Chinese New Yorkers Are Rallying Around Chinatown’s Businesses. (But That May Not Be Enough To Keep Them Open.)
Friday, December 18, 2020
Vaccine Rollout Begins at Safety Net Hospitals Across The City
Wednesday, December 16, 2020
Marriott Will Lay Off 850 Employees from Times Square Hotel
Tuesday, December 15, 2020
How A Simple Change In Homeless Strategy Is Making A Big Difference Bringing People Indoors
Friday, December 11, 2020
More Than 110,000 Children Were Homeless Last Year, Report Says
Thursday, December 03, 2020
Judge Lets City Move Homeless People Out Of UWS Hotel
Wednesday, November 25, 2020
A Historian Explains Why Everything We Know About Thanksgiving Is Wrong
Wednesday, November 25, 2020
Legal Aid Sues City Over Lack Of Internet Access For Homeless Students
Tuesday, November 24, 2020
NYC Public Hospitals Start To Transfer ICU Patients As COVID Returns
Friday, November 20, 2020
School Closures Present A Particular Challenge For Homeless Families
Thursday, November 19, 2020
With Coronavirus Cases, Increasing, Contact Tracers Workload Climbing Fast
Wednesday, November 18, 2020
Tango Dancers Twisting, Turning—And Splitting—Over Pandemic
Monday, November 16, 2020
New York City Has Passed Two COVID-19 Thresholds. So Why Hasn't It Been Shut Down?
Tuesday, November 10, 2020
Increasing Number Of Families With Children At Risk Of Homelessness, Report Says
Tuesday, November 10, 2020
Democrats And The Fight Over 'Socialism'
Monday, November 09, 2020
