Matt Taibbi

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Matt Taibbi

Matthew C. Taibbi (born March 2, 1970 ) is an American writer and journalist . He writes the monthly Road Rage column for Rolling Stone and the online column The Low Post . He caused a stir with an article on Goldman Sachs regarding the financial crisis. Taibbi ran the second digital magazine from First Look Media , which also publishes The Intercept , from February 2014 to October 2014 .

Life

Taibbi grew up in suburban Boston , Massachusetts . He attended Concord Academy and graduated from Bard College in New York in 1992 . During his studies he spent a year at the Technical University of St. Petersburg ; later he settled in Moscow. His father is Mike Taibbi, a television reporter for NBC .

Career

In 1992 Taibbi moved to Uzbekistan , where he stayed for six months before being expelled for critical articles about President Islom Karimov . He then worked for the Moscow Times as a sports correspondent, and later he was a professional athlete in Russia and Mongolia . He also wrote for Montsame, Mongolia's news agency. Taibbi was injured while playing basketball in Ulaanbaatar and developed severe pneumonia. He then returned to Boston for treatment. After recovering with his family, he went back to Russia and worked for the emigration magazine Living Here . There he teamed up with Mark Ames and published the newspaper The eXile . Taibbi later said of the experience, “We were out of the reach of American law and we didn't really need to be considerate of our advertising partners. We had total freedom. "

In 2002 he came back to America to publish the satirical magazine The Beast in Buffalo, New York. Finally he left the magazine. He became a freelancer, writing 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 failure. I wanted to write novels, ”he said to students at NYU in a guest lecture.

Taibbi left the New York Press in August 2005 shortly after its editor, Jeff Koyen, was fired for Taibbi's column, The 52 Funniest Things About the Pope's impending death . "In the meantime I have noticed that there would have been no way for me to stay anyway." Taibbi wrote later. He then got hired by Rolling Stone Magazine . He reported on international and domestic affairs in lengthy articles online and in print.

In July 2009 he published his sensational article on Goldman Sachs . In this, Taibbi describes the amalgamation of the powerful financial house with the highest government agencies in the USA . The later Treasury Secretary , Robert Rubin (in the Clinton administration) and Henry Paulson (under the Bush Agide), were each trained at Goldman Sachs. The Clinton appointed Rubin reached a number of decisions during his tenure in the Treasury Department with far-reaching consequences for the deregulation of the financial market . According to Taibbi, it was particularly bold that Goldman Sachs put paper on the market against which the money house itself then bet. Goldman allegedly made big profits by damaging its own investors . Much more far-reaching economically, however, were the bankruptcies of competitors Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers , for which Goldman Sachs is said to have been more or less responsible. The most important supervisory authority for Goldman Sachs, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York , was temporarily led by two former Goldman bankers, Stephen Friedman and William Dudley. At the end of his article, Taibbi concludes: “The government may let other players in the market die, but it will definitely not allow Goldman Sachs to go bankrupt under any circumstances. Your position on the market is too important for that. "

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

At the end of October 2014, Taibbi ended the collaboration with First Look Media and returned to Rolling Stone . In 2016 Taibbi mainly wrote articles there about the American presidential election campaign. After Donald Trump's election, this resulted in his book Insane Clown President , published in January 2017 .

Awards

  • 2008: National Magazine Award in the Columns and Commentary category

Article (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Matt Taibbi. Profile at NNDB. Retrieved July 29, 2014 .
  2. ^ First Look Media: Matt Taibbi To Lead First Look's Next Digital Magazine. (No longer available online.) February 19, 2014, archived from the original on July 20, 2014 ; accessed on July 29, 2014 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / firstlook.org
  3. ↑ http://www.bard.edu/about/history/
  4. ↑ according to self-disclosure in The Divide
  5. ^ Matt Taibbi: The Great American Bubble Machine. Rolling Stone , July 9, 2009, accessed July 29, 2014 .
  6. ↑ Pierre Omidyar: Important Announcement. (No longer available online.) First Look Media , October 28, 2014, archived from the original on October 29, 2014 ; accessed on November 7, 2014 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / firstlook.org
  7. ^ Tom McCarthy: Matt Taibbi returning to Rolling Stone after split from First Look Media. The Guardian , October 31, 2014, accessed December 22, 2014 .
  8. ^ Matt Taibbi: Matt Taibbi's New Book: 'Insane Clown President'. Rolling Stone , January 17, 2017, accessed January 23, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Taibbi, Matt
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Taibbi, Matthew C.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American writer and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH March 2nd 1970