Matthew Viser

Matt Viser is a White House reporter for The Washington Post. He joined The Post in October 2018, covering the midterms and the 2020 presidential election. He was previously the deputy chief of the Washington bureau for the Boston Globe, where he covered Congress, the presidential campaigns in 2012 and 2016, and John Kerry’s tenure as secretary of state. During his 16 years at the Globe, he also covered Boston City Hall and the Massachusetts State House.

Honors and Awards: White House Correspondents' Association's Merriman Smith Award, recognizing presidential news coverage under deadline pressure, 2016; Finalist for the Livingston Award for Young Journalists for national reporting, 2014; Everett McKinley Dirksen Award for Distinguished Reporting of Congress, 2013, "Broken City" series.