She teaches conflict reporting at the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism and previously served as the Africa and Moscow bureau chief for the Christian Science Monitor.
of Greater Flushing and executive vice president of Selfhelp Community Services, an agency for older people in the city founded to help victims of Nazi Germany who settled in the U.S.
Writing mainly about areas of turmoil abroad, Matloff then served as a staff foreign correspondent for two decades, for various bureaus for Reuters and then as the Africa and Moscow bureau chief of The Christian Science Monitor.
[4] She has consulted for NBC, the United Nations, Society of Professional Journalists, Columbia University's Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma, International News Safety Institute,[5] the State Department, UT Austin's Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas, DCTV,[6] the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, and outside the United States: Mexico City-based reporting network Periodistas de a Pié,[7] Mexico-based human rights group Cencos, BRITDOC, and the Canadian Association of Journalists.
She traveled 72,000 miles over five continents to investigate the geographic link between, among others, Albanian blood feuds, separatist struggles in Dagestan and Kashmir, and Mexican vigilante squads facing down narcotics cartels.
Matloff advances the argument, hailed by the author Robert Kaplan as "original", that the physical remoteness creates existential alienation as well, and that Switzerland's canton system presents a promising model for avoiding conflict.
"[10] In her 2020 book, Matloff gives practical advice earned from her years of experience on everything from constructing a bunker to preventing bank fraud to staying clean in a shelter.