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Matt Taibbi Biography
Matt Taibbi is one of the most popular and richest Journalist who was born on March 2, 1970 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Author and journalist who reported on politics, sports and other topics for outlets such as Rolling Stone and New York Sports Express. His books include The Exile (2000) and Spanking the Donkey (2005), as well as Insane Clown president (2017).
He was a guest on MSNBC’s The He has been a guest on MSNBC’s The Rachel Maddow Show. show.
Matthew C. Taibbi (/t aɪ ˈ iː b i / ; born March 2, 1970) is an American author, journalist and podcaster. He has reported on politics, media, finance, and sports. He is a contributing editor for Rolling Stone.
Taibbi moved to Ulan Bator, Mongolia for a time in the mid-1990s, where he played professional basketball in the Mongolian Basketball Association (MBA), which, he says, is the only basketball league outside the US that uses the same rules as the NBA. Taibbi became known as “The Mongolian Rodman”, was paid $100/month to play, and says he also hosted a radio show while there. He later contracted pneumonia and returned to Boston for surgery.
In 2010, he married Jeanne, a woman whose name was Jeanne.
Name | Matt Taibbi |
First Name | Matt |
Last Name | Taibbi |
Occupation | Journalist |
Birthday | March 2 |
Birth Year | 1970 |
Place of Birth | Boston |
Home Town | Massachusetts |
Birth Country | United States |
Birth Sign | Pisces |
Full/Birth Name | |
Parents | Mike Taibbi, Siobhan Walsh |
Siblings | Not Available |
Spouse | Jeanne Taibbi |
Children(s) | 3 |
Ethnicity, religion & political views
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Taibbi moved to Russia in 1992. He lived and worked in Russia and the former USSR for more than six years. He joined Mark Ames in 1997 to co-edit the English-language Moscow-based, bi-weekly free newspaper, The eXile, which was written primarily for the city’s expatriate community. The eXile’s tone and content were highly controversial. To some, its commentary was brutally honest and gleefully tasteless; others considered it juvenile, misogynistic, and even cruel. In the U.S. media, Playboy magazine published pieces on Russia both by Taibbi and by Taibbi and Ames together during this time. In 2000, Taibbi published his first book, The Exile: Sex, Drugs, and Libel in the New Russia, co-authored with Ames. He later stated that he was addicted to heroin while he did this early writing.
Matt Taibbi Net Worth
Matt Taibbi is one of the richest Journalist from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Matt Taibbi's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)
He was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and graduated from Bard College in New York. He briefly studied at Saint Petersburg Polytechnical University, Russia.
His work with Rolling Stone earned him a National Magazine Award in 2008.
Taibbi was born in 1970 in New Brunswick, New Jersey to Mike Taibbi, an NBC television reporter, and his wife. According to Matt, his surname Taibbi is a Sicilian name of Lebanese or Arabic origin, but his father, who is partly of Filipino-Hawaiian descent, was adopted as a child by a Sicilian-American couple who possessed the surname. Despite misconception, Taibbi is not of Arab descent but rather Irish and Filipino descent. He grew up in the Boston, Massachusetts suburbs. He attended Concord Academy in Concord, Massachusetts. He attended New York University but transferred after his freshman year to Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York and graduated in 1992. He spent a year abroad studying at Leningrad State Polytechnic Institute in Saint Petersburg, Russia.
Net Worth | $5 Million |
Salary | Under Review |
Source of Income | Journalist |
Cars | Not Available |
House | Living in own house. |
Taibbi began as a freelance reporter in the former Soviet Union, including a period in Uzbekistan, from where he was deported for criticizing President Islam Karimov. Taibbi later worked as a sports journalist for the English-language newspaper The Moscow Times. He also played professional baseball in Uzbekistan and Russia as well as professional basketball in Mongolia. Taibbi also worked for a short time as an investigator at a Boston-based private detective agency. In 1997, he moved back to Russia to edit the tabloid Living Here, but eventually left to co-edit rival tabloid The eXile. Taibbi returned to the United States in 2002 and founded the Buffalo-based newspaper The Beast. He left in 2003 to work as a columnist for the New York Press. In 2004, Taibbi began covering politics for Rolling Stone. In 2008, Taibbi won a National Magazine Award for three columns he wrote for Rolling Stone. In 2019, he launched the podcast Useful Idiots, co-hosted by Katie Halper and distributed by Rolling Stone. In 2020, he began self-publishing his online writing, while still contributing to the Useful Idiots podcast and the print edition of Rolling Stone.
In 2002, he returned to the U.S. to start the satirical bi-weekly The Beast in Buffalo, New York. He left that publication, saying that “Running a business and writing is too much.” Taibbi continued as a freelancer for The Nation, Playboy, New York Press (where he wrote a regular political column for more than two years), Rolling Stone, and New York Sports Express (as Editor at Large).
Height, Weight & Body Measurements
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Height | Unknown |
Weight | Not Known |
Body Measurements | Under Review |
Eye Color | Not Available |
Hair Color | Not Available |
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In the early 1990s, Taibbi moved from Saint Petersburg to Tashkent, Uzbekistan, where he began selling news articles more regularly. He was deported in 1992 for writing an article for the Associated Press that was critical of President Islam Karimov. At the time of his deportation, Taibbi was the starting left fielder for the Uzbek national baseball team.
In 2008, Taibbi was awarded the National Magazine Award in the category “Columns and Commentary” for his Rolling Stone columns. He won a Sidney Award in 2009 for his article “The Great American Bubble Machine”.
Who is Matt Taibbi Dating?
According to our records, Matt Taibbi married to Jeanne Taibbi . As of December 1, 2023, Matt Taibbi’s is not dating anyone.
Relationships Record: We have no records of past relationships for Matt Taibbi. You may help us to build the dating records for Matt Taibbi!In March 2005, Taibbi’s satirical essay, “The 52 Funniest Things About the Upcoming Death of the Pope”, published in the New York Press, was denounced by Hillary Clinton, Michael Bloomberg, Matt Drudge, Abe Foxman, and Anthony Weiner. He left the paper in August 2005, shortly after his editor Jeff Koyen was forced out over the article. Taibbi defended the piece as “off-the-cuff burlesque of truly tasteless jokes,” written to give his readers a break from a long run of his “fulminating political essays”. Taibbi also said he was surprised at the vehement reactions to what he wrote “in the waning hours of a Vicodin haze”.
Facts & Trivia
Matt Ranked on the list of most popular Journalist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Matt Taibbi celebrates birthday on March 2 of every year.
In a 2008 interview with Hemant Mehta for Patheos, Taibbi described himself as an “atheist/agnostic”.
Is Matt Taibbi related to Mike Taibbi?
Early life and education Matt Taibbi was born in 1970 in New Brunswick, New Jersey. Taibbi’s father, Mike Taibbi, is an NBC television reporter of mixed Filipino and Native Hawaiian descent who was adopted by an Italian-American couple.
Does Matt Taibbi still work for Rolling Stone?
Today, Taibbi is flush. He is no longer affiliated with Rolling Stone, but his Substack newsletter, TK News, is one of the most popular on the site, boasting more than 30,000 paying subscribers.
Who is Matt Taibbi's father?
Mike Taibbi
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Is Matt Taibbi married?
Jeanne Taibbi
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