About
Matthieu Aikins is a journalist whose feature writing and photography have appeared in such US, Canadian and British publications as Harper's Magazine, the Globe & Mail, the National Post, the Coast, the Toronto Sun, Progress Magazine, the Halifax Chronicle-Herald, the Kingston Whig-Standard, Bad Idea Magazine, SAIL Magazine, and on CBC's 'The National' and Global TV's 'National News'.
As an international freelance journalist, he has reported from geopolitical hotspots like Afghanistan, Iran, and Pakistan for Harper's Magazine, the National Post and the Globe & Mail.
For his reporting in 2008, Matthieu was the winner of the Canadian Association of Journalists Award in the Community Newspaper category, and the Atlantic Journalism Award for Enterprise Reporting. He was a finalist for the CAJ's Print Feature category, and also received the Dalton Camp Award for essays on journalism.
In his work as a music photographer, he has shot the In the Dead of Winter and Evolve music festivals, and bands Anew Airship, Wintersleep, Slowcoaster, and Do Make Say Think.
Matthieu currently lives in New York City, where he is at a two-year fellowship at New York University doing a joint MA in Journalism and Near Eastern Studies. His academic interests include the geopolitics of South and Central Asia, and the future of journalism and new media. On the latter subject, he is fortunate enough to be working with Jay Rosen and the innovative Studio 20 program.
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