Matthew C. "Matt" Taibbi (born March, 1970) is an American journalist. He currently works at Rolling Stone where he authors a column called "Road Rage" for the print version, and a weekly online column called "The Low Post". He is best known for his coverage of the 2004 US presidential election, and for his former editorial positions at newspapers the eXile, the New York Press, and the Beast. In 2008 Taibbi was a regular contributor to Real Time ...
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Matthew C. "Matt" Taibbi (born March, 1970) is an American journalist. He currently works at Rolling Stone where he authors a column called "Road Rage" for the print version, and a weekly online column called "The Low Post". He is best known for his coverage of the 2004 US presidential election, and for his former editorial positions at newspapers the eXile, the New York Press, and the Beast. In 2008 Taibbi was a regular contributor to Real Time with Bill Maher. In March 2009 he joined True/Slant as a blogger. In July 2009 he attracted attention for his piece on investment bank Goldman Sachs, whom he accuses of helping engineer "every major market manipulation since the Great Depression."
Taibbi spent his childhood in the suburbs of Boston, Massachusetts. He attended Concord Academy and Bard College at Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, then spent a year abroad at Saint Petersburg Polytechnical University. His father is Mike Taibbi, an NBC television reporter.
In 1992 Taibbi moved to...
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