Matt Bradley | |
|---|---|
| Education | Duke University (BA) |
| Occupation | Correspondent |
| Years active | 2004–present |
| Employer | NBC News |
Matt Bradley is an American journalist currently working at NBC News in London, United Kingdom, as a foreign correspondent. He previously worked at The Wall Street Journal as a Middle East correspondent in Baghdad, Iraq and Beirut, Lebanon. [1]
Bradley graduated from Duke University in Durham, North Carolina with a BA in English. [2] He was a writer for his college's newspaper, The Chronicle,[ citation needed ] and was a member of the Theta Chi fraternity.[ citation needed ]
Bradley began his career as an editor at Viet Nam News in Hanoi, Vietnam for a year and then worked as an economic assistant in the same area at the United States Department of State. He then moved back to the United States, working as an Asia editor at The Christian Science Monitor in Boston, Massachusetts.[ citation needed ]
Beginning in 2008, he was a reporter in Abu Dhabi, UAE and a foreign correspondent at Cairo, Egypt at the The National for 3 years before leaving in 2010 to work at The Wall Street Journal as a reporter and Middle East correspondent based in Cairo, Egypt, Baghdad, Iraq, and Beirut, Lebanon.[ citation needed ]
In 2016, Bradley was named a London-based correspondent at NBC News and MSNBC based in London, United Kingdom. [3] He reported big stories such as the QAnon conspiracy theory and the COVID-19 protests in Germany. [4] [5] In 2019 MSNBC anchor Ali Velshi was doing a segment on the fight against ISIS in Syria; the filming shifted to Bradley, who was caught spitting into his hand to groom his hair back, unaware for several seconds that his live shot had started. [6]