Matthew Schuerman joined WNYC in December 2007 as the transportation and economic development reporter. He covered repeated financial crises at the MTA, the most severe transit cuts in decades, as well as the impact of the recession on the Atlantic Yards project in Brooklyn and the World Trade Center redevelopment in Lower Manhattan. Since 2010, Schuerman has been an editor in the WNYC newsroom. In addition, he has recently reported a number of Sandy-related stories.
Schuerman came to radio from The New York Observer, where he also covered economic development. Earlier, he was an associate editor at Worth Magazine, and free-lanced for The Village Voice, Fortune, City Limits, and other publications.
Schuerman has been a fan of WNYC since the mid-1990s, when he was working as a reporter at The Day, a daily newspaper in New London, Conn. Though 100 miles away from New York, he could get Brian Lehrer and Leonard Lopate on his car radio while driving along Interstate 95 on his daily rounds, thanks to how the AM signal travels over the Long Island Sound.
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 the Arrests of 6 Bus Drivers, MTA Asks for 'Fairness'
Monday, February 23, 2015
HUD Warns NYC It's Too Slow with Sandy Funds
Monday, February 23, 2015
National Flood Insurance Was Once Just Broke; Now It Looks Broken
Friday, February 20, 2015
Raid on Engineering Firm Suspected of Undercutting Sandy Homeowners
Wednesday, February 18, 2015
Panel Looks Farther into Future, Sees Even More Climate Change
Tuesday, February 17, 2015
NJ Says 'NO' to Oysters and All They Have to Offer
Tuesday, February 10, 2015
Metro-North Investigation to Ask: Why Was She There?
Wednesday, February 04, 2015
Even 40 Inches of Snow Would Be No Problem for These Trains
Monday, February 02, 2015
Ice on the Third Rail Strands 7 Trains
Monday, February 02, 2015
Army Corps Finds Fault with Massive Storm Barriers
Wednesday, January 28, 2015
MTA Had Plan to Keep Subways Running Despite Heavy Snow
Tuesday, January 27, 2015
French Jews Find Refuge — Where Else? — on the Upper West Side
Friday, January 23, 2015
Why MetroCards Are Like Paper Towels
Thursday, January 22, 2015
Citi Bike's Parent Company Changes Name
Wednesday, January 14, 2015
Threatened Cuts to Overnight PATH Service Officially Dead
Wednesday, January 14, 2015
City Bans Solitary Confinement for Those Under 21 at Rikers
Tuesday, January 13, 2015
The Fight Over a Floating Buoy 20 Miles Out in the Ocean
Friday, January 09, 2015
The DMV Could Be More than Just a Place to Sit and Wait
Thursday, January 08, 2015
Broken Windows Might Be to Blame for Strife Between de Blasio, Cops
Tuesday, January 06, 2015
