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Bio/ResumeMATT WELCHLos Angeles, California mleewelch-at-gmail.com (Last updated November 19, 2007) -- I am editor at Reason, the magazine for free minds and free markets; author of the new McCain: The Myth of a Maverick, and I do a bit of music and blogging on the side. For most of 2006-2007 I was assistant editorial pages editor of the Los Angeles Times, overseeing the section's web operations, shaping the editorials, writing all over the page (print and virtual). For most of 2002-2005 my primary employer and outlet was Reason, where I was associate editor (October 2004-January 2006), media columnist (April 2004-April 2006); and longtime contributor to the must-read Hit & Run weblog. From July 2002 to October 2004, I wrote a regular "Letter from California" column for the Review section of Canada's National Post newspaper; before that I had semi-regular gigs at the Online Journalism Review, the lefty-politics website WorkingForChange.com (for whom I covered Ralph Nader's 2000 presidential campaign); and the now-defunct L.A. tech/biz mag Zone News. I have freelanced for the Columbia Journalism Review, L.A. Daily News Orange County Register, LA Weekly, ESPN.com, Salon, Wired News, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, The Hardball Times, AlterNet, The Walrus, The Daily Star of Beirut, and dozens of other publications. My favorite topics range from media to international affairs to all things California to baseball (see a more complete list of topics and article-categories to your left). I have written, edited and/or consulted for more than a dozen start-up media companies, including the nefarious Digital Entertainment Network, the acclaimed Tabloid.net, and the stillborn LA Examiner newspaper project. Before 1998 I lived for eight years in Central Europe, where I co-founded the region's first post-communist English-language newspaper, worked as UPI's Slovakia correspondent, and managed a Business Journal in Budapest. For a representative sample of my writing, try here. To see hundreds of other articles and columns under my byline, just roam around the various categories on this site; nearly everything from 1998 onward is posted, and I'm slowly typing in the Central Europe archives. The details:Editor, Reason Los Angeles, California November 2007 -- Contact: David Nott, president of the Reason Foundation. Assistant Editorial Pages Editor, Los Angeles Times Los Angeles, California January 2006 -- November 2007 Helped assemble the Opinion section of the West Coast's largest newspaper, and oversee its website. Wrote and edited editorials, Op-Eds, and online-only content. Contact: Jim Newton, opinion editor Associate Editor, Reason Los Angeles, California October 2004 -- January 2006 Wrote a monthly media column, regular online pieces and longer magazine features, for the United States' premier libertarian-bent politics & culture magazine. Contact: Nick Gillespie, editor Contributing Editor, Reason Los Angeles, California December 2003 -- October 2004 Wrote the media column and some other bits, including coverage of the 2004 political conventions. Contact: Nick Gillespie, editor California Correspondent, The National Post Toronto, Canada July 2002 -- October 2004 Write a fortnightly column for the Saturday Review section of Canada's most interesting national newspaper. Contact: Paul Wilson, former Review editor Proprietor, Matt Welch's Weblog Los Angeles, California September 2001 -- Write daily weblog that attracts around 2,500 unique visitors a day. Contact: Me Associate Editor, Reason Los Angeles, California May 2003 -- December 2003; April 2004 -- June 2004 Wrote and edited articles for the magazine and its website while various editors were on book sabbaticals. Contact: Nick Gillespie, editor Co-founder/editor, LA Examiner Los Angeles, California May 2001 -- June 2003 Posted items about L.A. gossip, media and news to a once-popular group weblog; worked with former Mayor Richard Riordan on a prototype issue of a weekly newspaper that was never started. Contact: Ken Layne, co-founder/editor Columnist, NewsForChange San Francisco May 2000 -- January 2002 Wrote political/cultural column; covered the Ralph Nader 2000 presidential campaign. Contact: Christopher Scheer, former editor Staff Writer, Zone News Los Angeles October 1999 -- March 2001 Wrote profiles of Southern Californian technology entrepreneurs, features on macroeconomic issues and columns about terrible companies, for now-defunct tech/biz magazine. Contact: Ben Sullivan, former editor News Editor, Tabloid.net Editor/Reporter, New World Publishing
Founder, Owner and Editor, Prognosis
Correspondent, United Press International Production Manager, Daily Nexus
First Place Weblog, 2004 Coverage of the 2004 Democratic National Convention First Place Online News Story, Feature or Series, 2002 The Cuban Senators First Place Online Column/Commentary/Criticism, 2002 Censorship Gravy Train, Red & Blue Feud Resumes, and Weaning Europeans From the U.S. Teat First Place Online Story/Column, 2000 My Time in the Den of Iniquity Second Place Magazine Feature/Column/Commentary, 2004 Temporary Doves Second Place Magazine News Article/Investigative Report, 2002 The Politics of Dead Children Second Place Magazine Feature/Column/Commentary, 2002 Speaking Lies To Power Second Place Online Commentary/Criticism/Column, 2001 The Libertine Right Second Place Online Story/Column, 2000 The Two-Hour Reich Honorable Mention Online Column/Commentary/Criticsm, 2003 Work for Reason Online Honorable Mention Online News Story, 2001 New Jersey's Teen Matt Drudge Honorable Mention Online Commentary/Criticism/Column, 2001 Teens Who Don't Make the Cut CONSULTING:
Nick Gillespie Editor, Reason Paul Wilson Editor, The Walrus; former Review editor, National Post Henry Copeland CEO, Pressflex; former editor, Budapest Business Journal Ben Sullivan Former managing editor, Zone News; former editor and publisher, Prognosis; former staff writer, Budapest Business Journal Ken Layne Co-founder/editor, LA Examiner; Former editor, Tabloid.net; former staff writer, Prognosis and Budapest Business Journal; former owner/general manager, Viper Radio Tim Blair Proprietor, timblair.blogspot.com; former co-host, The Continuing Crisis on the Australian Broadcast Corporation John Allison Contributions Editor, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette; former editor, Prognosis Christopher Scheer Editor, NewsForChange; co-founder, Prognosis Jennifer Paull Editor, Fodor's Eve M. Kahn Essayist, architecture critic; former copy editor, Budapest Business Journal Robert Scheer Editor, Online Journalism Review; former investor, Prognosis; nationally syndicated columnist  Send e-mail to Matt Welch. 
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