Matt Taibbi is an American author, journalist and podcaster. He is a contributing editor for Rolling Stone. Know about Matt Taibbi siblings here.

Matt Taibbi Biography

Taibbi was born in 1970 in New Brunswick, New Jersey to Mike Taibbi, an NBC television reporter, and his wife.

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.

On April 6, 2020, Taibbi announced he would no longer publish his online writing through Rolling Stone, and would henceforth independently publish his online writing through the e-mail newsletter service Substack.

In October 2019, Taibbi argued that the whistleblower in the Trump–Ukraine scandal was not a “real whistleblower” because the whistleblower had not had his life shattered or destroyed. Taibbi also characterized the Trump–Ukraine scandal as a “coup” against Trump.

In February 2014, Taibbi joined First Look Media to head a financial and political corruption-focused publication called Racket.

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”.

Matt’s approximate net worth is $2 million

 He is married to Jeanne Taibbi.

Taibbi has three children with his wife Jeanne, who is a family doctor. As of 2014, Taibbi lived in Jersey City, New Jersey.

Who Are Matt Taibbi siblings?

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.

There are no records about Matt Taibbi siblings if he has any.