![]() Matthew believes in the most important tenants of Investigative Reporting do the research, do the legwork, know all the facts and go after the bad guy! Mike Taibbi, Former correspondent, NBC News, NBC Dateline winner of 37 local and national Emmy Awards and four Edward R. And now, if you want the back story behind so many of the reports of his that generated their own headlines or moved the chains toward justice or redemption, you can dive into his “Confessions of an Investigative Reporter: Stories I Couldn’t Tell on TV.” That meant you could trust Matt’s reporting I did and still do. What I’ve liked best about Matt’s work is that he never settled for the on-camera gotcha, the low-hanging fruit you knew was coming in every report: he first gave you the context, the background, the documentation- the unglamorous but essential elements in any report that mattered. His targets were the usual rogues gallery: doctors whose over-prescribed oxycodone and methadone prescriptions killed patients instead of helping them con men (and women) pushing phony security guard licenses or non-existent services corrupt judges and politicians, unrepentant killers. In New York, where I worked alongside him, and later in Tucson where I often visited friends and sources during my own long career at NBC News, I watched Matt do the work the good ones do: gathering the evidence and, when it added up and only then, chasing down the bad guys to demand an explanation. He likes watching the news but his favorite TV shows of all-time are The Honeymooners, Seinfeld and The Sopranos.įor the more than three decades I’ve known Matthew Schwartz he’s been a reporter from the old school…the same one I came up in modeled after the dusty Chicago City News Bureau slogan: “If your mother says she loves you, check it out.” It led to a federal law making air travel safer for pets. He did a series on pets dying in airplane cargo holds. He went undercover to catch a car dealership rolling back odometers and selling the cars as new. He did a half-dozen interviews with a real estate developer who was not yet well known outside New York: Donald Trump. After his reporting broke up a large ring of illegal fortune tellers, the father of one of the accused swung a baseball bat at Matthew’s head. Matthew has confronted countless con artists. Some of Matthew’s memorable stories include an interview with “Son of Sam” serial killer David Berkowitz the trials of mobster John Gotti reports on the 9/11 attacks from Ground Zero the crash two months later of American Airlines flight 587 in Queens, NY and hundreds of reports on corruption, fraud and government waste. Murrow Awards for investigative reporting. He has won more than 200 awards, including four New York Emmys and four regional Edward R. Matthew Schwartz has told approximately 10,000 stories on television stations across the country for four decades.
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