23 May 2018

Bookmarks with Matt Nippert

From Afternoons, 2:20 pm on 23 May 2018

Matt Nippert is a multi-award winning investigative journalist and Herald reporter

This year at the Voyager awards he was named business journalist of the year and as well as the winner of the supreme individual prize on offer, the 10 week scholarship at Wolfson College at Cambridge University.  

That award recognised the previous title he won two years in a row of Reporter of the year in 2016 and 2017.

He's never the let his awards detract from his ongoing commitment to chasing complex and often murky business  stories that lead often lead him to relying on a network of overseas contacts to help connect the dots.

He tells us about some of the stories he has worked on, as well as the books, movies, music and other things that have inspired and influenced him.

Matt Nippert

Matt Nippert. Photo: Supplied

Matt's picks:

Music: B.O.B by Outkast and American Money by Børns     

Authors:

Michael Monroe Lewis, an investigative journalist who wrote Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game (2003) and The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine (2010)

Tom Wainwright, another journalist author, who wrote Narconomics: How to Run a Drug Cartel

Jon Ronson - UK author, made his name interviewing weird people about why they are weird. Especially Them and The Men Who Stare at Goats.

China Mievelle - The only author I've gone out of my way in the past five years to read their entire back-catalogue. Mixes high-brow concepts with trashy genres. Mind-blowing page turners, all. Esp: The Bas-Lag Trilogy, and The City and the City.

Charles Stross - My guilty pleasure. British sci-fi author with long-running series' The Laundry Files (a cross between Stranger Things, James Bond and The Office), and The Merchant Princes (where the discovery of multiple dimensions is adapted by drug cartels). I read them all.

Movies: The Big Lebowski, Starship Troopers

TV: The Wire, Blackadder series.