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Matt Welch 
Editor in Chief, Reason magazine
Matt Welch is editor in chief of Reason magazine.
From 2006 to 2007, Welch served as assistant editorial pages editor at the Los Angeles Times, shaping and writing editorials, and overseeing the section's web operations.
From 2002 to 2006, Welch worked at Reason as an associate editor and media columnist. From 2002 to 2004, he also wrote a regular "Letter from California" column for Canada's National Post newspaper and contributed to the Online Journalism Review; WorkingForChange.com (for whom he covered Ralph Nader's 2000 presidential campaign); and the now-defunct Los Angeles tech/biz magazine Zone News.
Welch’s work has appeared in The Washington Post, Columbia Journalism Review, Los Angeles Daily News, Orange County Register, LA Weekly, ESPN.com, Salon.com, Wired, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, The Daily Star of Beirut, and dozens of other publications.
Before 1998, Welch lived for eight years in Central Europe, where he co-founded the region's first post-communist English-language newspaper, Prognosis, worked as UPI's Slovakia correspondent and managed the Budapest Business Journal.
He lives in Washington, DC, with his wife Emmanuelle.
Contributions | Hit & Run Posts
- Rearranging the Cow Tails on the Titanic, Matt Welch, July 2, 2009, 11:32am
- WashPost Peddling Access to Health Care Reporters?, Matt Welch, July 2, 2009, 9:05am
- "What this is about is a personal issue that happened late in the campaign relating to a close, personal friend of Bill Kristol", Matt Welch, July 2, 2009, 8:14am
- McCain and Feingold Sitting in a Tree, C-h-o-k-i-n-g, Matt Welch, July 1, 2009, 10:20am
- Even in Death, Elvis Beats Jacko Like a Drum, Matt Welch, July 1, 2009, 9:10am
- D-Day for States, Matt Welch, June 30, 2009, 10:36am
- California State Assembly Speaker, on Talk Radio: "I don't know why we allow that kind of terrorism to exist", Matt Welch, June 30, 2009, 9:31am
- The $2.7 Billion Tax Break for Captain Morgan, and Other Lowlights From TARPy McStimulus, Matt Welch, June 29, 2009, 11:08am
- Did Michael Jackson Liberate the Masses from Communism, or Did He Merely Replace Stalin?, Matt Welch, June 26, 2009, 5:15pm
- House on Verge of Global Warming Vote, Matt Welch, June 26, 2009, 3:53pm
- Richard Posner: Expand Copyright Protections to Save Newspapers!, Matt Welch, June 26, 2009, 1:53pm
- Just How Old Was Michael Jackson?, Matt Welch, June 26, 2009, 11:18am
- George Will: "Countless" Green Jobs, Literally, Matt Welch, June 25, 2009, 10:33am
- Iran, Cold War Revisionism, and Vaclav Havel, Matt Welch, June 24, 2009, 4:03pm
- Probably the Worst Video in the History of YouTube, Matt Welch, June 24, 2009, 2:12pm
- New at Reason: Matt Welch on John McCain's Iranian Game of Chicken, Matt Welch, June 23, 2009, 6:00pm
- Workaday Media Bias, and State Budget Crises, Example #2, Matt Welch, June 23, 2009, 9:48am
- Workaday Media Bias and State Budget Crises, Example #1, Matt Welch, June 22, 2009, 10:49am
- Iran Update, Matt Welch, June 22, 2009, 8:14am
- Truth, Goodness and Beauty...and What Really Happened When The Cure Sang About Tiananmen, Matt Welch, June 19, 2009, 11:37pm
- The Passions of Richard Wolffe, Matt Welch, June 19, 2009, 12:58pm
- Net Spending Cuts, Everywhere Except Where They Were Promised, Matt Welch, June 19, 2009, 11:26am
- Cut to the Bone!, Matt Welch, June 19, 2009, 9:40am
- New Middle East Events Prove it: Obama Right About Most Everything, Matt Welch, June 18, 2009, 1:32pm
- "Progressives need to stop worrying and learn to love taxes", Matt Welch, June 18, 2009, 10:42am
- Bailout for Union Pensions?, Matt Welch, June 18, 2009, 9:42am
- New From the Reason Foundation: the "Taxpayer's Guide to the Stimulus", Matt Welch, June 17, 2009, 5:08pm
- Saving California's Children Against the "secular Taliban", Matt Welch, June 17, 2009, 3:10pm
- Berlau on Obama's New Regs: So Much for That, Matt Welch, June 17, 2009, 12:52pm
- Erecting Barriers to Remove Them, Matt Welch, June 17, 2009, 10:18am
- Hey, Guess Whose Son Is Begging for an $80 Million Taxpayer Handout for His Pro Sports Franchises?, Matt Welch, June 16, 2009, 3:51pm
- Let's See, California Has No Money, and the Freeways Are Lousy and Clogged, So...., Matt Welch, June 16, 2009, 12:34pm
- Reason's Tim Cavanaugh and Terry Colon Win First-Place Awards at the L.A. Press Club's Annual Gala, Matt Welch, June 15, 2009, 1:45pm
- Ask a Puerto Rican, But Don't Expect Much of an Answer, Matt Welch, June 15, 2009, 10:52am
- Matt Welch on KFI at 7:30 PDT Talking California Budget, Matt Welch, June 4, 2009, 9:42pm
- We Will NEVAH Forget!...Until We Forget**, Matt Welch, June 4, 2009, 4:02pm
- Matt Welch on Fox News Talking About California's Implications for the Rest of the Country, Matt Welch, June 4, 2009, 1:40pm
- Toobin: Diversity Considerations "nearly as old as the Court itself", Matt Welch, June 4, 2009, 9:03am
- Has Prop. 13 Really Robbed California of Property-Tax Revenue?, Matt Welch, June 3, 2009, 5:20pm
- Libertarians and Conservatives: Still Not Sitting in a Tree; Sotomayor Edition, Matt Welch, June 3, 2009, 10:00am
- Matt Welch on Monterey's KION 1460 am at 6:35 PDT to Talk California Politics, Matt Welch, June 3, 2009, 9:29am
- What "not running GM" Looks Like, Matt Welch, June 2, 2009, 2:48pm
- Matt Welch to Appear on Fox News at Around 1:20 pm EDT to Talk About California and Arnold Schwarzenegger, Matt Welch, June 2, 2009, 12:34pm
- Bailout Mentality 101, Matt Welch, June 2, 2009, 7:59am
- How Is the Collapse of GM et al Like the Demise of the Merchant Marine?, Matt Welch, June 1, 2009, 3:31pm
- Robert Samuelson: "Obama has inspired a collective fawning", Matt Welch, June 1, 2009, 11:22am
- The $499,000 Pension and Other Tales of California Governance, Matt Welch, June 1, 2009, 9:02am
- Seventy Percent of Americans Can't Leave the Country, Matt Welch, June 1, 2009, 8:02am
- Matt Welch on KFI's John and Ken Show at 5 pm PDT, Talking California Budget Politics, Matt Welch, May 29, 2009, 6:43pm
- Who Is John Hamilton?, Matt Welch, May 29, 2009, 5:40pm