Matt Bai

Matt Bai
Bai in May 2014
Born (1968-09-09) September 9, 1968 (age 56)
Trumbull, Connecticut, U.S.
Education
Occupation(s)Columnist, screenwriter
Board member ofJonathan M. Tisch College of Citizenship and Public Service at Tufts
SpouseEllen
Children2
AwardsPulitzer Traveling Fellowship
Websitewww.mattbai.com
Notes

Matt Bai (/ˈbaɪ/; born September 9, 1968) is an American journalist, author and screenwriter.[4] He is a contributing columnist for the Washington Post.[4] Between 2014 and 2019, he was the national political columnist for Yahoo! News.[4][5][6] On 25 July 2019, via Twitter, Bai announced he was leaving Yahoo! News to "focus on screenwriting".[7][non-primary source needed] For more than a decade prior to that, he was the chief political correspondent for the New York Times Magazine,[4] where he covered three presidential campaigns, as well as a columnist for the Times. His cover stories in the magazine include the 2008 cover essay "Is Obama the End of Black Politics?" and a 2004 profile of John Kerry titled "Kerry's Undeclared War". His work was honored in two editions of The Best American Political Writing.[8] Bai is a graduate of the College of Arts and Sciences at Tufts University in Medford, MA, and Columbia's Graduate School of Journalism, where the faculty awarded him the Pulitzer Traveling Fellowship. In 2014, Bai had two brief appearances as himself in the second season of TV show House of Cards.[9]

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  2. ^ "Tisch College Welcomes Four New Board Members – Jonathan M. Tisch College of Citizenship and Public Service". 5 May 2013. Retrieved 7 September 2014.
  3. ^ Lindsay, Greg (16 January 2008). "So What Do You Do, Matt Bai, New York Times Magazine Political Reporter?". Archived from the original on 7 September 2015. Retrieved 7 September 2014.
  4. ^ a b c d WashPostPR. "Matt Bai joins Washington Post Opinions as politics contributing columnist". Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved 21 September 2020.
  5. ^ "New York Times Magazine's Matt Bai Joins Yahoo News". HuffPost. 12 November 2013.
  6. ^ "Matt Bai". Matt Bai. Retrieved 25 December 2021.
  7. ^ Bai, Matt (25 July 2019). "Matt Bai on Twitter" – via Twitter.
  8. ^ Flippin, Royce (2006). The Best American Political Writing 2006. Thunder's Mouth Press. ISBN 978-1-56025-912-1.
  9. ^ ""House of Cards" Chapter 24 (TV Episode 2014) – IMDb". IMDb. Retrieved 7 September 2014.