Matt Taibbi

Matthew C. Taibbi (* March 1970 ) is an American writer and journalist. He writes the monthly column " Road Rage" for Rolling Stone and the online column called " The Low Post". He caused a sensation with an article on Goldman Sachs with respect to the financial crisis.

Life

Taibbi spent his childhood in a suburb of Boston, Massachusetts. He attended Concord Academy and Bard College in New York. During his time at the university he attended the Technical University of St. Petersburg for a year. His father is Mike Taibbi, a television reporter for the NBC.

Career

In 1992 Taibbi moved to Uzbekistan, where he remained for six months before he was expelled because of critical articles about the Presidential Islom Karimov. He then worked for the Moscow Times as a sports correspondent, later he was a professional athlete in Russia and Mongolia. Alongside he wrote for Mont seed, the News Agency of Mongolia. Taibbi was injured playing basketball in Ulaanbaatar and suffered a severe pneumonia. He then returned to Boston to treat back. After he had recovered his family, he returned to Russia and became a contributor to the emigrants magazine "Living Here". There he joined with Mark Ames together and published the newspaper "The eXile ". Taibbi later said about the experience: "We were out of the reach of American law, and we did not really consideration for our advertising partners take We had total freedom. . "

In 2002 he came back to America to the satirical magazine "The Beast" in Buffalo, New York to publish. Finally, he left the magazine. He was a freelancer and wrote for " The Nation ", " Playboy ", " New York Press " ( where he wrote a regular political column for over 2 years), "Rolling Stone", "New York Sports Express ," and others. "For me it is a career aberration. I wanted to write novels. " he told students at NYU in a guest lecture.

Taibbi left the " New York Press " in August 2005, shortly after his editor Jeff Koyen " The 52 funniest things about the impending death of the Pope" was fired because of Taibbi 's column. " I have since heard that it would have anyway been no way for me to stay. " Taibbi wrote later. He then hired at the " Rolling Stone Magazine". He reported in length on international and domestic political affairs. First, online and for printed documents, now only for the printed output.

In " Real Time with Bill Maher " (American Emmy -nominated talk show ) Taibbi was special correspondent for the presidential campaign of 2008. MSNBC 's for " The Rachel Maddow Show ," he was in the wake of the economic crisis in 2009, before the camera.

Awards

• 2008: National Magazine Award ( in the category columns and comments)