Matt Schrader

Matt Schrader (born 14 November 1988 in Burbank, California) is an investigative journalist and freelance reporter in Los Angeles, California. He is executive producer of USC’s award-winning Annenberg TV News.
He has worked with major broadcast networks including CBS, ABC, NBC and FOX, in addition to hosting a public access cable show in Long Beach, Calif., and guest hosting other organizational efforts and projects. He helped organize an international conference on university academics at USC in 2008, and has recently worked as a newsletter and Web editor for the internationally known USC Center on Public Diplomacy.
Stories he's covered include the naming of a new LAPD police chief, the arrest and court proceedings of singer Chris Brown and the visit of President Barack Obama to Downtown Los Angeles in April 2010.
High School
Schrader attended private high school at CSCS in Colorado Springs, Colorado, where he played varsity football for three years and started the school's first student newspaper. In his junior year of high school he also began working as a writer for the award-winning 100,000-circulation Gazette regional newspaper as a high school sports writer.
Schrader switched to the public Coronado High School before senior year and started another school newspaper.
College
In his first semester at USC, Schrader co-founded the Southern California Business Film Festival. He has since been active in all media platforms at USC, including producing, executive producing and anchoring the Annenberg TV News, writing and editing stories for the acclaimed Daily Trojan student newspaper and creating and hosting USC Football Saturday, a weekly, six-hour gameday marathon-broadcast on KSCR 1560 AM in Los Angeles.
In summer 2009, he led the public relations and marketing teams of students in an upstart venture, SOS Classroom, to help underprivileged children grades K-8 unable to attend or afford specialized school programs, including summer school. Matt has had an active role in the direction and reach of the program, as well as the design, marketing and outreach efforts.
Schrader has been honored with a number of awards for his TV news pieces, most recently the Edwin O. and JoAnn Guthman Endowed Scholarship for Investigative Reporting in 2010.
Notable Investigations
In the fall of 2009, Schrader published an investigative journalism piece on the abuse of power in the City of Los Angeles, which attracted the attention of dozens of media outlets and blogs. The Emmy Award-winning Channel 4 News at 5 on KNBC 4 in Los Angeles dedicated a full segment to the story and an interview.
In spring 2010, Schrader published a short investigative work on windshield advertising and litter, which numerous media outlets and blogs picked up.
Schrader’s pieces have also been featured on the KNBC news show "The Filter."

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