Matt Kiser
Founder at WTF Just Happened Today?
United States
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Top SchoolMatt Kiser is the founder and curator of WTF Just Happened Today?, a once-a-day political newsletter read by 200,000+ subscribers that translates complex national news into clear, actionable context. With 11 years of product and editorial experience across startups and legacy media—Business Insider, Forbes, SPIN, and Algorithmia—he blends product strategy, UX, and newsroom discipline to grow audiences and revenue. He’s an inbox journalist at heart, hands-on with front-end work on the WTFJHT site where he improved templates, UX, and subscription flows to better serve readers. Matt teaches newsletter product best practices and has built repeatable onboarding, retention, and attribution processes that scale editorial products. His background in journalism, full-stack web development, and entrepreneurial ventures (including a punk-label and student radio revival) gives him a rare mix of editorial instinct and technical execution.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts - BA, Journalism; American Studies, Bachelor of Arts - BA, Journalism; American Studies at California State University-ChicoCertificate, Full Stack Web Development, Certificate, Full Stack Web Development at General AssemblyCertificate, Digital Media Marketing, Certificate, Digital Media Marketing at New York UniversityCertificate, Entrepreneurial Journalism, Certificate, Entrepreneurial Journalism at Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY
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Github Skills (5)
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Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
mkiser/WTFJHT
Jan 2017 - Jan 2023
Logging the daily shock and awe in national politics. Read in moderation.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:16 reviews, 7083 commits, 848 PRs in 6 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Matt primarily updated the layout and content of the blog's index pages and implemented new features and functionality. Specifically, the changes included updating the layout and content of the default template and adding a subscription box. The user worked in the core of the blog's presentation layer and its structure. Furthermore, the user did minor updates to improve the overall user experience and layout of the blog.
nationalpoliticsloggingshocknews
postlight/parser-api
Apr 2019 - Mar 2025
🚀 A drop-in replacement for the Postlight Parser API.
Contributions:2 PRs, 3 comments in 6 years
apidrop-inlambda-functionsmercury-parsermercury
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