Matthew Cooper (American journalist)

For the Irish journalist, radio and television presenter, see Matt Cooper (Irish journalist).
Matthew Cooper
Cooper in 2016.
Born1963
Alma materColumbia University
OccupationPolitical journalist

Matthew Cooper (born 1963) is a political journalist with a career spanning over 30 years, currently serving as the Executive Editor of Digital at the Washington Monthly. From 2014 to 2018 he was a senior writer and an editor at Newsweek. Before that he was the managing editor for White House coverage at National Journal magazine and editor of National Journal Daily.[1] Cooper is a former reporter for Time who, along with New York Times reporter Judith Miller was held in contempt of court and threatened with imprisonment for refusing to testify before the Grand Jury regarding the Valerie Plame CIA leak investigation. He was a blogger for Talking Points Memo in early 2009, and contributed to the magazine Condé Nast Portfolio until it closed in April 2009,[2][3] after which he became a correspondent for The Atlantic magazine. He worked for the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission on a book about the group's findings from the economic collapse in 2010.[4]

In 2018, Cooper resigned from his senior writer position at Newsweek after two top editors were fired for investigating their parent company's potential illegal dealings. In his resignation letter,[5] Cooper cited the company's dwindling standards and “reckless leadership” following several scandals both editorial and organizational.[6]

  1. ^ New York Observer (2010)
  2. ^ Talking Points Memo (2009). Matthew Cooper Archived 2009-01-22 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved January 20, 2009.
  3. ^ Carr, David (April 27, 2009). "Portfolio Magazine Shut, a Victim of Recession". The New York Times. Retrieved July 24, 2009.
  4. ^ FishbowlDC (2009)
  5. ^ Facebook
  6. ^ BuzzFeed (2018)