Matthew J. Friedman - Senior Producer
Matthew J. Friedman
Senior Producer
Matthew J. Friedman is an award-winning journalist and CNN Senior Producer based in New York. He covers conflict, civil unrest, and gun violence as well as breaking news stories in the U.S. and around the world.
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Struggling Millennial homeowner: I didn’t need my degree
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Jan 19, 2024
CNN’s Alisyn Camerota sat down with two millennial families who say they’re reconsidering what the “American Dream” really means.
Inside New York’s migrant crisis: A father smiles to hold back tears as he looks for help that’s costing the city billions
Sep 27, 2023
Thousands of asylum seekers are finding help – a place to stay, medical care, food – at a closed-down hotel that’s New York City’s new Ellis Island.
Lexi Rubio’s mom and dad are trying to give her a legacy beyond being a school shooting victim. But all they want is to see her again
May 22, 2023
Each morning Felix Rubio helps his wife Kim get their younger kids ready for school. Then every day he visits the child he can’t help anymore – the daughter slaughtered with her friends at Robb Elementary.
Mothers wanted to watch horrific footage of their children escaping the Robb Elementary massacre. Here’s why we showed them. And why they want others to see
May 22, 2023
One year on from the mass shooting at Robb Elementary School, moms of surviving children still had questions – what had their sons and daughters gone through?
‘So much blood’: Medics tell what they saw and did after Uvalde massacre
Mar 19, 2023
Among the medics who responded to the Robb Elementary massacre was a local EMT who treated three children at the same time and her off-shift colleague who found herself caring for her son’s classmates, not knowing if her own boy was alive.
Memphis squashed its SCORPION unit but many other cities rely on special squads, even after their own controversies
Jan 31, 2023
Memphis moved quickly to shut down its SCORPION police unit but across other major American cities, such teams remain common and have been for decades.
Exclusive: Uvalde school police chief told investigators why he didn’t try to stop gunman: ‘There’s probably going to be some deceased in there, but we don’t need any more from out here’
Jan 11, 2023
CNN exclusive: In a never-before-seen interview, school police chief Pete Arredondo said he prioritized saving students in other classrooms before those trapped with a shooter.
Sources: As DPS investigation of Uvalde response nears end, two officials face increased scrutiny
Dec 16, 2022
Texas Department of Public Safety investigators looking into the botched response at Robb Elementary School have become increasingly troubled by the actions of two officials – former Uvalde schools police chief Pedro “Pete” Arredondo and former Uvalde Police Lt. Mariano Pargas – according to law enforcement officials familiar with the investigation.
State documents appear to indicate Uvalde Sheriff Nolasco has not completed active shooter training
Dec 13, 2022
Uvalde County Sheriff Ruben Nolasco does not appear to have completed an active shooter training course, according to documents CNN obtained Monday from the Texas Commission on Law Enforcement, the regulatory agency for peace officers in Texas.
Exclusive: Uvalde sheriff had vital information about school shooter that was not shared
Dec 8, 2022
Uvalde Sheriff Ruben Nolasco learned the shooter’s name. He went to Robb Elementary. He did not take charge, even when he learned children were trapped. Six months after 19 children and two teachers died, the county’s top law enforcement official defended his actions as adequate.
As acting Uvalde police chief resigns, questions remain about what Texas’s top law enforcement agency did and didn’t know about the school shooting
Nov 18, 2022
New audio shows Texas’ top law enforcement agency knew children were trapped with the shooter but officers at the scene were confused.
As the Uvalde school district names a new interim police chief, a rare special meeting is expected Saturday to determine senior cop’s fate
Nov 17, 2022
As a senior law enforcement officer with Uvalde, Texas, police faces potential termination this weekend amid fallout from the Robb Elementary School shooting, the public school district has named its new police chief.
Exclusive: Uvalde mayor vows senior cop who knew children needed rescuing from Robb Elementary will be gone ‘by the end of this week’
Nov 16, 2022
Uvalde Mayor Don McLaughlin said he learned of new justification from CNN reporting that Lt. Mariano Pargas should quit or be fired.
Exclusive: New audio of phone call shows for the first time that a senior Uvalde officer was told children needed to be rescued from inside a classroom
Nov 15, 2022
Uvalde’s acting police chief knew there were “eight to nine” children alive and needing rescue from a shooter in the classrooms at Robb Elementary but failed to organize help, new audio of a phone call and CNN analysis of newly obtained video shows.
How the law enforcement response to the Uvalde massacre unfolded as children made chilling 911 calls from inside
Nov 6, 2022
On the day of the Uvalde massacre, fourth graders Khloie Torres and Miah Cerrillo, surrounded by the bodies of classmates and their teacher at Robb Elementary School, whispered but managed to speak clearly and politely to a 911 operator.
About
Matthew J. Friedman is an award-winning journalist and CNN Senior Producer based in New York. He covers conflict, civil unrest, and gun violence as well as breaking news stories in the U.S. and around the world.
Most recently, Friedman received the prestigious Peabody and George Polk Awards for his investigative work with Shimon Prokupecz exposing the police failure at the Robb Elementary School shooting in Uvalde, Texas. He was also a part of the CNN team recognized with a Columbia-duPont Award for their work in Ukraine in 2022.
Before joining CNN’s New York Bureau he was a producer at CNN International covering global news stories like the Russian invasion of Ukraine, gang violence and the presidential assassination in Haiti, and the devastation in Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria. He also field produced weeks of special coverage in Subsaharan Africa and the Middle East with Richard Quest. He joined CNN in 2014 as a writer covering business news from the New York Stock Exchange and the economic fallout across Europe from Brexit and the Greek debt crisis.
Friedman grew up in Philadelphia. He graduated from the University of Delaware with a degree in Political Science and International Relations.
