Matthew T. Hall is the editorial and opinion director at The San Diego Union-Tribune, where he has worked since 2001. He manages the Ideas and Opinion section, writing and editing editorials, and overseeing a Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoon, op-ed commentary, letters to the editor and an innovative blog and podcast called “The Conversation,” which shares the news of the day in dynamic digital ways. He previously managed the newsroom’s social media, compiled its Essential California newsletter and created and wrote “The Conversation.” Before that, he was a metro columnist who wrote four columns a week and a reporter who covered San Diego neighborhoods, city politics, the Chargers’ stadium search, the Padres’ TV fiasco and east and north San Diego County. He has been named blogger, feature writer, critic and social media personality of the year by the San Diego chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists and blogger and columnist of the year by the San Diego Press Clu
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