1. Matt Bai is an American journalist, author and screenwriter.
12 Facts About Matt Bai
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Matt Bai is a contributing columnist for the Washington Post.
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Matt Bai's work was honored in two editions of The Best American Political Writing.
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Matt Bai is a graduate of the College of Arts and Sciences at Tufts University in Medford, MA, and Columbia's Graduate School of Journalism, where the faculty awarded him the Pulitzer Traveling Fellowship.
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In 2014, Matt Bai had two brief appearances as himself in the second season of TV show House of Cards.
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Matt Bai began his career as a speechwriter for the US Committee for UNICEF, writing for Audrey Hepburn, among others, and his international coverage includes reporting from Liberia and Iraq.
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In 2001, Matt Bai was a fellow at Harvard Institute of Politics at Harvard Kennedy School at Harvard University, where he led a seminar on the next generation of political journalism.
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Matt Bai has been a fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University and the University of Chicago Institute of Politics.
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Matt Bai's first book, The Argument, published in August 2007, is an account of the "new progressive movement" in America and the people who built it.
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Matt Bai discussed this aspect of the book on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and on NPR's Fresh Air, among other venues.
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Matt Bai co-wrote the screenplay for The Front Runner, the cinematic version of All the Truth Is Out, along with the screenwriter Jay Carson and the film's director Jason Reitman.
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Matt Bai has written for television, and in 2014, he played himself in two episodes of the Netflix series House of Cards, as part of a season-long storyline involving a magazine story he was writing in the show.