Matthew Casey
Senior Field Correspondent | [email protected]Matthew Casey, a senior field correspondent, won first place from Public Media Journalists Association for Policing the Police, an eight-part series on the civil rights review of Phoenix and its police department. He's also won Edward R. Murrow awards for hard news and sports reporting since he joined KJZZ in 2015.
Casey helped open two local bureaus. He covered immigration during the first Trump administration. Casey is creator of the podcast, Reefer Growing Madness, about the life cycle of marijuana plants. He also reported, wrote and produced the podcast Empty Seats, about the pandemic’s effect on the professional sports industry in metro Phoenix.
Before public radio, he worked for newspapers, digital media and at a television station. “A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away,” Casey and a buddy rode a bus to Mexico City to cover Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s first presidential bid.
Casey is a proud Spanish speaker and grateful to the immigrants who taught him while working in restaurants. When he’s not reporting for KJZZ, Casey enjoys being with his son.
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A community meeting connected to a long-running racial profiling case against the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office is scheduled for Wednesday night, and will be virtual for the first time. -
The marijuana holiday 4/20 is on Monday. It falls about 10 weeks before the deadline to submit enough signatures so Arizona voters could decide in November whether to outlaw dispensaries. -
Phoenix is responding to a state lawmaker’s call for Arizona's attorney general to investigate a new regulation that restricts ICE’s ability to use city property. -
A member of the Chandler City Council is calling for the swift completion of an internal review of an off-duty Phoenix police sergeant’s behavior at a student protest against ICE in January. -
ASU and University of Arizona researchers are among more than 20 coauthors of a new article in the journal Science about a deadly split in a large group of chimpanzees. -
The Phoenix police chief has put a sergeant on paid leave while an internal investigation of the sergeant’s behavior at an ICE protest in the East Valley is conducted. -
A progressive advocacy group is suing a pair of GOP state lawmakers over its members having been trespassed from Capitol buildings and threatened with arrest if they return. -
What caused a 52-year-old man to die in Mesa police custody over the weekend is under investigation. Officers tried to pull him over for having no front light on his bicycle. -
A company accused by Arizona of illegal gambling and election wagering has won a victory at the Third Circuit Court of Appeals. -
Chicanos Por La Causa has launched a nonpartisan get-out-the vote campaign called Si Se Vota.
