Matt Gutman Biography

Fast Facts

• Grew up in Westfield, N․J․, and earned his degree at Massachusetts's Williams College
• Published his first article in the "Buenos Aires Herald" in 2000 while traveling through Latin America and Africa as a freelance writer
• As a Miami-based ABC News correspondent, he provided detailed coverage of the gulf oil spill and BP's involvement in the disaster
• Spend a month in Beijing to cover the 2008 Olympics
• In 2002, he reported for various publications from Jerusalem, and during the peak of the Palestinian uprising he embedded himself in the West Bank with Palestinians and settlers
• While working as a correspondent for ABC News Radio in Miami, he reported on the 2008 elections and the earthquake in Haiti
• Was in Iraq when Saddam Hussein was captured in December 2003 and learned what had happened from a shepherd who'd watched the event on al Jazeera