Matthew Cooper (born 1963) is a political journalist with a career spanning over 30 years, currently serving as the Executive Editor of Digital at the Washington Monthly.

He worked for the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission on a book about the group's findings from the economic collapse in 2010.

[4] In 2018, Cooper resigned from his senior writer position at Newsweek after two top editors were fired for investigating their parent company's potential illegal dealings.

In his resignation letter,[5] Cooper cited the company's dwindling standards and “reckless leadership” following several scandals both editorial and organizational.

[6] On June 29, 2005, U.S. Federal judge Thomas F. Hogan gave Miller and Cooper one week to comply with the Grand Jury order to testify or face the maximum penalty of 18 months in prison The United States Supreme Court declined the reporters' appeal of the contempt of court finding.

Citing a "person who has been officially briefed on the case," The New York Times identified Karl Rove as the individual in question.

The article, entitled "What I Told The Grand Jury," concludes: So did Rove leak Plame's name to me, or tell me she was covert?

Was it through my conversation with Rove that I learned for the first time that Wilson's wife worked at the CIA and may have been responsible for sending him?