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:
De Blasio Enlists City Workers to Reduce Homelessness
Thursday, November 14, 2019
The True Origins of Gentrification
Friday, November 08, 2019
The Real Story of Gentrification
Tuesday, November 05, 2019
Review: 'The Lightning Thief' Is Kid's Stuff
Sunday, October 27, 2019
Review: The Hard Satire of 'Soft Power'
Saturday, October 26, 2019
NYCHA's Turnaround Plan Faces Obstacles
Friday, October 25, 2019
Domestic Violence Driving City's High Homelessness Numbers
Monday, October 21, 2019
Review: The 'Sound Inside' Thrills
Sunday, October 20, 2019
Review: 'Little Shop of Horrors' Is Perfectly Creepy — and Surprisingly Deep
Saturday, October 19, 2019
Homeless Killing Brings Kendra's Law Back Into Spotlight
Thursday, October 10, 2019
Review: Freestyle Love Supreme's Hip Hop Improv Is Solid But Too Safe
Saturday, October 05, 2019
When A Misdemeanor Can Land You In An Art Museum
Wednesday, October 02, 2019
Review: The Starkness of This 'Betrayal' Brings Out Its Complexities
Saturday, September 07, 2019
De Blasio Follows Cuomo in Expanding Homeless Outreach in Subways
Thursday, August 22, 2019
Review: Hannah Gadsby's Stand-Up Show 'Douglas' Is a Winning Follow-Up to 'Nanette'
Saturday, August 03, 2019
Report Finds Diversity in City's Cultural Institutions — But Not When It Comes to Race
Tuesday, July 30, 2019
Homeless Outreach Provider Acquired Multi-Million-Dollar Contract Without Bidding
Monday, July 29, 2019
Review: 'Moulin Rouge: The Musical!' Is Too Much of an Over-the-Top Spectacle
Saturday, July 27, 2019
State Comptroller: Homeless Outreach Provider Is Failing at Its Job
Tuesday, July 23, 2019
The Film 'In the Heights' Is Shooting ... in (Washington) Heights
Tuesday, July 23, 2019
