About

I am an investigative journalist and author. I am currently working on a book about Jared Kushner and the Middle East for One Signal, a Simon & Schuster imprint. My first book, Code Over Country: The Tragedy and Corruption of SEAL Team 6, is an exposé about the Navy SEALs and SEAL Team 6, which was published in 2022 by Bold Type Press, an imprint of Hachette Books.

Before that, I worked as an investigative reporter for The Intercept, focusing on national security and foreign policy. Before that, I was an investigative producer at NBC News and ABC News. I’ve been twice nominated for an Emmy, and I’ve broken national and international exclusives that were aired or distributed on all ABC and NBC platforms, including Good Morning America, World News Tonight, Nightline, the Today Show, NBC Nightly News, and MSNBC. I have appeared on ABC, NBC, MSNBC, and CNN because of my reporting.

I have exposed a secret CIA “black site” in Lithuania, a failed defection of an Iranian nuclear scientist, a secret Pentagon spying program in North Korea using Christian missionaries, covered the war in Afghanistan, and spent more than a decade covering the U.S. government’s post 9/11 war on terror. I have traveled to more than two dozen foreign countries as a reporter, to every continent but Antarctica.

Before I was a TV producer, I was a contributing writer at ESPN the Magazine and wrote features for GQ, New York, Salon, and Details, among other magazines. His work has been cited in the annual Best Sports Writing. 

Cole graduated from Sarah Lawrence College and received a master’s degree in journalism from Columbia University. He resides in New York.

If you would like to contact him, send an email to jjc2020cole [at] protonmail [dot] com or subscribe to my Substack: https://matthewcole.substack.com/