Dylan Matthews

Dylan Matthews is one of the staff members at Vox.com, an online media venture along with Ezra Klein, Melissa Bell, and Matthew Yglesias.[1]

Professional life

In 2004, at the age of 14, Matthews launched a personal blog on politics and other issues under the name minipundit.[2][3] Between June 2013 and January 2014, Matthews blogged at the Wonkblog section of the Washington Post,[4] focuses on taxes, budgets, and other elements of US economic and fiscal policy. In late January 2014, Ezra Klein, Matthews' colleague at the Wonkblog, announced that they, along with Matthew Yglesias and Melissa Bell, would be starting a new online media venture with Vox Media.[1] The venture, named Vox.com, launched in early April 2014,[5] and Matthews wrote his first article for the site in April 2014.[6][7]

Matthews has also written for Salon[8] and The New Republic[9] and has appeared on Bloggingheads.tv.[10][11] His writings have covered basic income, immigration policy, effective altruism, among other topics,

Matthews went to Harvard University, where he studied social and political philosophy, and also wrote for The Harvard Crimson while there.[12]

Reception

Matthews was listed as one of "five rising stars under 25" in Politics Daily by Katie Glueck in 2010.[3]

Charity evaluator and effective altruism advocate GiveWell published a conversation with Matthews from when he was still working for the Washington Post Wonkblog section.[13]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Klein, Ezra (January 26, 2014). "Vox is our next". The Verge. Retrieved May 29, 2014.
  2. ↑ "Dylan Matthews: The Blogger Formerly Known as Minipundit". Retrieved May 29, 2014.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Glueck, Katie (July 24, 2010). "Five Rising Stars Age 25 and Under". Retrieved May 28, 2014.
  4. ↑ "Dylan Matthews: Reporter". Washington Post. Retrieved May 28, 2014.
  5. ↑ Hartmann, Margaret (April 7, 2014). "Understanding Ezra Klein’s Newly Launched Vox.com". New York Magazine. Retrieved May 28, 2014.
  6. ↑ "Dylan Matthews". Vox.com. Retrieved May 28, 2014.
  7. ↑ "Simply talking to people about same-sex marriage makes them more tolerant". Vox.com. April 8, 2014. Retrieved May 29, 2014.
  8. ↑ Matthews, Dylan (November 11, 2011). "Occupy Harvard gets the old college jeer. In the school of the 1 percent, griping greets the movement". Salon. Retrieved May 28, 2014.
  9. ↑ "Dylan Matthews". The New Republic. Retrieved May 29, 2014.
  10. ↑ "Dylan Matthews". Bloggingheads.tv. July 7, 2012. Retrieved May 29, 2014.
  11. ↑ "Google Search results for Dylan Matthews on Bloggingheads.tv". Retrieved May 28, 2014.
  12. ↑ "Dylan R. Matthews". The Harvard Crimson. Retrieved May 29, 2014.
  13. ↑ "A conversation with Dylan Matthews" (PDF). GiveWell. April 10, 2013. Retrieved June 6, 2014.