# Matt Taibbi Matt also has Newsletter(s) on Substack Authored the [Bubble Machine]. --- # References Matthew Colin Taibbi[3] (/taɪˈiːbi/; born March 2, 1970) is an American author, journalist, and podcaster. He has reported on finance, media, politics, and sports. A former contributing editor for Rolling Stone, he is the author of several books, co-host of Useful Idiots, and publisher of the Racket News (formerly TK News) on Substack. Taibbi began as a freelance reporter working in the former Soviet Union. He later worked as a sports journalist for the English-language newspaper The Moscow Times. In 1997, Taibbi and Mark Ames co-edited the tabloid newspaper The eXile. In 2002, Taibbi returned to the United States and founded the Buffalo-based newspaper The Beast. He left a year later to work as a columnist for the New York Press.[4][5] Clipped from [Matt Taibbi - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Taibbi) at 2023-12-06.