Dylan Matthews

Dylan Matthews is an American journalist. He is currently a correspondent for Vox, an online media venture.

Professional life

Early writing

In 2004, at the age of 14, Matthews launched a personal blog on politics and other issues under the name minipundit.[1][2] Matthews graduated from Hanover High School in Hanover, New Hampshire, in 2008. He went on to Harvard University, where he studied social and political philosophy, and also wrote for The Harvard Crimson.[3]

The Washington Post

Between June 2013 and January 2014, Matthews blogged at the Wonkblog section of The Washington Post,[4] focusing on taxes, budgets, and other elements of US economic and fiscal policy.

In October 2013, Wonkblog journalist Ezra Klein and Matthews spearheaded the launch of "Know More", a new blog under The Washington Post targeted at replicating the viral reach of popular websites such as BuzzFeed. The project's success gained Matthews recognition internally in The Washington Post and externally. Matthews won The Washington Post "Publisher's Award" of October 2013 for his work on Know More.[5] A leaked internal memo from The Washington Post publisher Katharine Weymouth announcing the award stated:

At its heart, KnowMore is Dylan Matthews.

Dylan is the writer and producer—but more than that, the sensibility—behind KnowMore, which is a blog aimed at drawing attention to the very best work offered by the Post and also by other publications. Conceived by Ezra Klein as a way to extend the Wonkblog brand further into social media, built by Yuri Victor and sustained with help from the whole Wonkblog crew, KnowMore is not trolling for cheap clicks. The idea is to grab readers' attention and draw them into deeper reading about substantive subjects (OK, plus the occasional silly diversion).

After launching Oct. 7, KnowMore rocketed to the top echelons of Post blogs. On some days, KnowMore draws more traffic than Wonkblog. For the third week of October—the third week of its existence—KnowMore was the No.1 most-read blog on all of washingtonpost.com. It is consistently in the top five.[5]

When interviewed about the strategy of the project, Matthews suggested it was primarily about publishing content that would be shared and virally-distributed on Facebook: "The most obvious similarity [to BuzzFeed and Upworthy] there is in targeting Facebook rather than Twitter. If you look at any site that does well socially, there's just a handful that get their traffic from Twitter. Journalists sometimes forget this because we tend to really like Twitter."[6]

Responding to negative comparisons with BuzzFeed, Matthews said: "It really irks me when people act like they're better than BuzzFeed, which is an extremely effective journalism outfit—much better than most at being honestly what people are looking for." Klein also rejected direct comparisons to "clickbait", arguing: "There's this idea that there's this thing called click-bait that everybody wants to click on. If I could figure out what that is and get people to click on good content—my god, what a wonderful thing!"[7]

Vox.com

In late January 2014, Klein and Matthews announced that they, along with Matthew Yglesias and Melissa Bell, would be starting a new online media venture with Vox Media.[8] The venture, named Vox.com, launched in early April 2014,[9] and Matthews wrote his first article for the site in April 2014.[10][11] The scientific research Matthews reported on in that article turned out to be fraudulent, and 13 months later he wrote a mea culpa article about the fraud and how he was deceived by it.[12] Matthews leads the Vox section Future Perfect, dedicated to effective altruism.

Other writing

Matthews has also written for Salon[13] and The New Republic[14] and has appeared on Bloggingheads.tv.[15][16] His writings have covered basic income, immigration policy, effective altruism, among other topics.

리셉션

매튜스는 2010년 케이티 글루크에 의해 정치일보에 "25세 이하 유망주 5명" 중 한 명으로 등재되었다.[2] Matthews는 그의 출판물에 데이터 시각화를 사용한 것으로 유명하다.[17]

자선 평가자 겸 효과적인 이타주의 옹호자 기브웰은 워싱턴 포스트 원크블로그에서 일하고 있을 때부터 매튜스와 나눈 대화를 발표했다.[18]

2016년 자폐자기 옹호 네트워크는 해리엇 맥브리드 존슨에게 논픽션 글쓰기 상을 수여함으로써 매튜스를 올해의 가장 뛰어난 자폐 언론인으로 인정하였다.[19]

사생활

2017년 메튜스는 이식을 위해 신장을 기증했다. 그는 독자들에게 살아있는 신장 기증을 고려하도록 격려한 복스 기사에서 그 경험을 묘사했다.[20]

Matthews는 효과적인 이타주의 운동과 동일시하고 효과적인 자선단체에 소득의 최소한 10%를 기부하기로 약속한 사람들의 모임인 Giving What We Can의 일원이다.[21]

참조

  1. ^ "Dylan Matthews: The Blogger Formerly Known as Minipundit". Retrieved May 29, 2014.
  2. ^ a b Glueck, Katie (July 24, 2010). "Five Rising Stars Age 25 and Under". Retrieved May 28, 2014.
  3. ^ "Dylan R. Matthews". The Harvard Crimson. Retrieved May 29, 2014.
  4. ^ "Dylan Matthews: Reporter". The Washington Post. Retrieved May 28, 2014.
  5. ^ a b Herrman, John (2013-11-14). "Memo: It Took Three Weeks For The Washington Post's Viral Site To Become Its Biggest Blog". BuzzFeed. Retrieved 2015-05-17.
  6. ^ Kirkland, Sam (2013-10-17). "Viral strategy behind WaPo's Know More blog won't blow your mind; read this anyway". Poynter Institute. Archived from the original on 2015-07-23. Retrieved 2015-05-17.
  7. ^ O'Donovan, Caroline (2013-10-09). "You won't believe which media company just launched a BuzzFeed-inspired microsite". Nieman Lab. Nieman Foundation for Journalism. Retrieved 2015-05-17.
  8. ^ Klein, Ezra (January 26, 2014). "Vox is our next". The Verge. Retrieved May 29, 2014.
  9. ^ Hartmann, Margaret (April 7, 2014). "Understanding Ezra Klein's Newly Launched Vox.com". New York Magazine. Retrieved May 28, 2014.
  10. ^ "Dylan Matthews". Vox.com. Retrieved May 28, 2014.
  11. ^ "Simply talking to people about same-sex marriage makes them more tolerant". Vox.com. April 8, 2014. Retrieved May 29, 2014.
  12. ^ "This was the biggest political science study of last year. It was a complete fraud". Vox.com. May 20, 2015. Retrieved May 21, 2015.
  13. ^ 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.
  14. ^ "Dylan Matthews". The New Republic. Retrieved May 29, 2014.
  15. ^ "Dylan Matthews". Bloggingheads.tv. July 7, 2012. Archived from the original on May 29, 2014. Retrieved May 29, 2014.
  16. ^ "Google Search results for Dylan Matthews on Bloggingheads.tv". Retrieved May 28, 2014.
  17. ^ "26 charts and maps that show the world is getting much, much better". Vox. Retrieved 2015-09-28.
  18. ^ "A conversation with Dylan Matthews" (PDF). GiveWell. April 10, 2013. Retrieved June 6, 2014.
  19. ^ "2016 ASAN Gala, Harriet McBryde Johnson Award for Non-Fiction Writing: Dylan Matthews". Autistic Self Advocacy Network.
  20. ^ Matthews, Dylan. "Why I gave my kidney to a stranger — and why you should consider doing it too". Vox.
  21. ^ "Our Members". givingwhatwecan.org.