Matthew Lee (born September 9, 1965)[2] is an American journalist and diplomatic writer who has been working for the Associated Press since 2007.

He then proceeded to move to Charlottesville, Virginia to work for The Daily Progress as a local news reporter.

[3] On June 17, 1997, while covering a firefight in Phnom Penh between gunmen aligned respectively to the two co-rulers of Cambodia, Lee was wounded by shrapnel.

[4] As the State Department reporter for the Associated Press, Lee has been noted on multiple occasions as unusually assertive in exchanges with State Department Spokespersons Victoria Nuland,[6] Jen Psaki,[7][8] Ned Price,[9][10][11][12] and Matthew Miller.

[13] In an article about the importance of an adversarial press, Nathan J. Robinson of Current Affairs described Lee's February 2022 exchange with Price as "a master class in how journalists should approach government claims".