Matthew Colin Taibbi (born March 2, 1970) is an American author, journalist, and podcaster. He is the son of Mike Taibbi.
Meet Mike Taibbi’s Son Matt Taibbi
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.
Matt began as a freelance reporter working 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. 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