Matt Bai
National politics reporter for the New York Times
Matt Bai was a guest lecturer at the US Studies Centre in June 2008. He spoke on the topic: US Political Journalism - The Next Generation.
Matt Bai writes on national politics for The New York Times Magazine, where he covered the 2008 presidential campaign. He is the author of The Argument: Billionaires, Bloggers, and the Battle to Remake Democratic Politics. The book, which chronicles the rise of the first Internet-age political movement and the people who built it, was honored as a New York Times Notable Book for 2007.
Bai's 2004 coverage for the magazine included cover stories on the Republican machine in Ohio and the future of Democratic politics, as well as a seminal cover profile of John Kerry titled "Kerry's Undeclared War." His work was honored in both the 2005 and 2006 editions of The Best American Political Writing.
