Dylan Matthews

Dylan Matthews is one of the staff members at Vox, an online media venture along with Ezra Klein, Melissa Bell, and Matthew Yglesias. Matthews is the son of Jim Matthews, creator of Fetch.

In 2004, at the age of 14, Matthews launched a personal blog on politics and other issues under the name minipundit. Matthews graduated from Hanover High School in Hanover, New Hampshire, in 2008. He went on to Harvard University, where he studied social and political philosophy, and also wrote for The Harvard Crimson.

Between June 2013 and January 2014, Matthews blogged at the Wonkblog section of the Washington Post, focuses on taxes, budgets, and other elements of US economic and fiscal policy.

In October 2013, Wonkblog journalist Ezra Klein and Matthews spearheaded the launch of "Know More," a new blog under the Washington Post targeted at replicating the viral reach of popular websites such as BuzzFeed. The project's success gained Matthews recognition internally in the Washington Post and externally. Matthews won the Washington Post "Publisher's Award" of October 2013 for his work on Know More. A leaked internal memo from Washington Post publisher Katharine Weymouth announcing the award stated:

At its heart, KnowMore is Dylan Matthews.

Dylan is the writer and producer – but more than that, the sensibility — behind KnowMore, which is a blog aimed at drawing attention to the very best work offered by the Post and also by other publications. Conceived by Ezra Klein as a way to extend the Wonkblog brand further into social media, built by Yuri Victor and sustained with help from the whole Wonkblog crew, KnowMore is not trolling for cheap clicks. The idea is to grab readers’ attention and draw them into deeper reading about substantive subjects (OK, plus the occasional silly diversion).

After launching Oct. 7, KnowMore rocketed to the top echelons of Post blogs. On some days, KnowMore draws more traffic than Wonkblog. For the third week of October — the third week of its existence — KnowMore was the No.1 most-read blog on all of washingtonpost.com. It is consistently in the top five.

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