About Matt OBrien

O'BRIEN, MATT is a reporter covering demographics and immigration for the Bay Area News Group, a news organization that includes the Oakland Tribune and the Contra Costa Times. He began his daily newspaper career in his hometown of Lowell, MA, where he taught high school as a substitute during the day and freelanced at night until someone finally gave him a full-time reporting job. After driving across the country to Oakland in late 2004, he spent most of the next three years covering the city of Hayward, CA, for The Daily Review, a 31,000-circulation newspaper. O'Brien graduated from the Johns Hopkins University in 2002 with a degree in international studies. He loves exploring the city, the country and sometimes even the suburb.