Matthew Nordin, LICSW is a Murrow Award-winning investigative TV journalist and graduated from one of the nation's top-ranked mental health therapist training programs in 2018. Matt sees clients for private therapy sessions and uses his knowledge about trauma, depression, and anxiety to help newsrooms plan for their employees' mental health challenges just as they plan for elections and big weathe
r events. In addition, Matt has several projects in pre-production at K**b Hill Media, his radio |TV | podcast | audiobook production company, that will bring his knowledge of mental health issues and self-care solutions to a wider audience. Matt has been behind the mic for as long as he can remember, thanks to Fisher Price. The first time he spoke into a mic that was actually connected to a transmitter was in December 1993 when he introduced a soft rock song in the overnight hours one weekend on WMIX-AM in his hometown of Mt. He would work the overnight hours on the weekends as a DJ and then anchor and report the news in the evenings throughout the week for the rest of his high school career. After graduating Southern Illinois University in Carbondale, he landed a job at the CBS affiliate in Greenville/Spartanburg, SC. Matt's continuing coverage investigating a former lieutenant governor's financial scheme that left thousands without their savings earned him a Murrow Award. Before the term "work/life balance" was on-trend, Matt next headed to Anchorage, Alaska where nature nurtured his soul along with stories like an investigation into the disappearance of the beluga whale, which included an unforgettable boat ride on Cook Inlet with an Alaska Native family. Following that adventure, Matt headed back south to help launch Myrtle Beach's new NBC affiliate, where he co-anchored the morning news and continued his investigative reporting. Throughout his career, the networks have literally been calling. First CBS Radio News, for whom Matt has contributed many stories, the BBC, NBC NewsChannel, and ABC News Radio. It was a particular highlight to appear on the BBC to twice offer an American journalist's point of view on world events because as a boy, Matt --- like millions of others prior to stations being available on the internet --- would try to dial-in the BBC on a staticky shortwave radio. Now, one of these "presenters," as they're known in the UK, was asking Matt for his analysis of what was happening in America and abroad. Today, Matt and his husband, Rusell Cuya, live in Washington state. They are the parents of Harry, a Cavalier King Charles Spaniel, who runs their household.
