Katz works for WNYC and New Jersey Public Radio, and has written for Politico, The New York Times, The Washington Post and The New Republic.
[7][2][8][9] In 2022, Katz won the October Sidney Award for obtaining and publishing never-before-seen images of the squalid and lethal conditions at Rikers Island.
[10] Prior to becoming a political journalist, Katz was known as South Jersey's Carrie Bradshaw when he wrote a dating advice column.
[11] He is Jewish and asserts that he suffered anti-semitic harassment as a result of reporting critically on U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump.
[12] In 2024, Matt Katz wrote and hosted an eight-episode podcast series, Inconceivable Truth, about his search for his biological father and his investigation into the unusual way in which he was conceived in 1970s Manhattan.