Matthew Schuerman

Matthew L. Schuerman is an award-winning journalist, author, and editor who has worked in print, digital and audio. He has extensive experience covering the climate crisis, urban planning, immigration, education, international affairs, and elections.He is currently an editor at NPR, where he has also written digital pieces and produced stories for air. Previously, Schuerman worked for 13 years as reporter, editor, and senior editor at WNYC public radio in New York, where his Harlem Heat Project won a prestigious Edward R. Murrow Award. His work has also appeared in The New York Times, The New York Observer, and The Village Voice. In 2019, his book, Newcomers: Gentrification and Its Discontents, was published by the University of Chicago Press to wide acclaim.

Born and raised in Chicago, Schuerman graduated magna cum laude from Harvard College and received a master’s degree from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. He lives outside New York City.