Matthew Campbell is a reporter and editor for Bloomberg Businessweek. He has reported from more than 25 countries on crime, corruption, terrorism, public health, and the environment. His work has been recognized with honors, including the Gerald Loeb, Overseas Press Club, and Society of Publishers in Asia awards for feature and investigative reporting. In 2022, he was a finalist for a National Magazine Award for public interest reporting.
Campbell’s first book, Dead in the Water, co-authored with Kit Chellel, was selected as a Book of the Year by The Economist, Financial Times, and Sunday Times. His next book, to be published by Portfolio Penguin, is Stealing the Gods: War, Obsession, and a Global Search for Lost Treasure. It will tell the story of how thousands of priceless artifacts were looted during the Cambodian Civil War and laundered onto the international art market—ending up, among other places, at New York’s Metropolitan Museum.
Selected Work
- An Art Crime for the Ages: A story for Bloomberg Businessweek on the looting of Cambodian antiquities.
- How Two Ex-Cops Cracked a $100 Million Maritime Mystery: An excerpt from the book Dead in the Water.
- The Deadly Mining Complex Powering the EV Revolution: An investigation in Bloomberg Businessweek of safety and environmental failures in the nickel industry, which is critical to expanding production of electric cars.
- Murder, Money and the Battle for a Pharmaceutical Empire: An investigation in Bloomberg Businessweek of the unsolved murders of Barry and Honey Sherman, pharmaceutical billionaires who were found mysteriously strangled in their home.
- The Fugee, the Fugitive and the FBI: An investigation in Bloomberg Businessweek into how R&B star Pras Michel came to be part of a covert Chinese influence campaign--before running headfirst into the FBI.