Matt Katz
Matt Katz (born July 4, 1978) is an American journalist. Career and works. Katz works for WNYC and New Jersey Public Radio, and has written for "Politico", "The New York Times", "The Washington Post" and "The New Republic." He was previously a reporter at the "Philadelphia Inquirer," the "Courier-Post" and the "Daily Record." He is known for his coverage of New Jersey Governor Chris Christie. He ran "The Christie Tracker" for New Jersey Public Radio. Katz was a member of a WNYC team that won a 2015 Peabody Award for its series on Governor Christie entitled, "Chris  Christie, White House Ambitions and the Abuse of Power." He won the Livingston Award for International Reporting for a series on reconstruction efforts in Afghanistan. Katz is the author of "", a political profile of Chris Christie published on January 19, 2016 by Simon & Schuster. Prior to becoming a political journalist, Katz was known as South Jersey's Carrie Bradshaw when he wrote a dating advice column. He is Jewish and asserts that he suffered anti-semitic harassment as a result of reporting critically on U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump. Background and education. Katz is the son of Roberta and Richard  Katz of Roslyn, New York. He married Deborah Anne Hurwitz in 2004. Katz has an undergraduate degree in Political Communication from George Washington University. He is member of the Kappa Sigma fraternity.