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Matt Taylor
@matthewt_ny
Now: Features Editor , writer for hire. Previously: , , , etc. Pitches, tips: mtaylor@tnr.com or open DM for Signal
BrooklynJoined May 2009

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Hi. I'm filling in as features editor at and am hungry for print magazine (5000+ word) pitches. Politics, power, policy, social issues, weird regional controversies, unlikely villains, ideological trends, etc. Pitch me! MTaylor@TNR.com
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Same goes for and my tipline remains open 💅
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I'm getting a lot of texts so let me just do this real quick: a company (reportedly) considering bankruptcy does not mean it ceases to exist. Motherboard continues operating as normal and you can keep sending me tips. Some of us have been through this before, unfortunately, lol
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Have long coveted an opportunity to shamelessly tweet a still from this movie, so here's roughly the vibe I'm cultivating, albeit a touch less self-righteous (and definitely weirder and more Harpers-y):
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Has been a blast watching own this story (which may seem impossible with such absurd saturation coverage but they have!).
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It's almost 7am. We're still outside court. Well-heeled reporters are taking the places of people who waited for them on line. But they didn’t know the journey of the night, the coldest before dawn, the depths of desperation as you search for meaning. hellgatenyc.com/breaking-hell-
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Journalist blue check discourse long ago surpassed the “if you didn’t care you wouldn’t be talking about it” phase and reached “seek help immediately” imo
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For Christ's sake, first Edwin Diaz and now this.
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With @AaronRodgers12 in Santa Monica. My dad said it best: "Moral courage is a rarer commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence. Yet it is the one essential, vital quality for those who seek to change the world which yields most painfully to change.”
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Signing Jalen Brunson proving to easily be the most significant development in New York cultural life since Eric Adams was elected.
The has no plans to redesign its portion of the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway — despite pleas from pols and locals desperate to use the opportunity of a forthcoming redesign of the city’s portion to scrap the entirety of the antiquated highway
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The city had an opportunity to make all of 9th St. safer way back in the early 2000s after 2 boys were killed by a trucker on their way home from school, and again in 2018 after two more kids, and an unborn baby, were killed by a driver, but it didn’t.
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New from : Georgia prosecutor admits to knowing the cop who left the door open before a mentally ill Black woman fell to her death from a moving police car. He also happens to believe the cop did not commit a crime.
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