About

Max Kutner is an award-winning journalist and frequent television and radio guest. He is a senior reporter at Law360 and the host and creator of Radicalized, an Audible Original podcast about violent extremism that was a best-seller in the U.K. and awarded Best Podcast by the Society for Features Journalism. Previously, he was a senior politics writer at Newsweek, where he led coverage of the U.S. Department of Justice. His political scoops have received coverage from The New York Times and The Washington Post.

He has also written for The Boston Globe, Smithsonian, Wired, Los Angeles, Washingtonian, Boston, Vice, Nautilus, Chronogram, Newsweek Japan, Just Security, and Vassar: The Alumnae/i Quarterly. He has appeared on the BBC, MSNBC, CBSN, ITV, CTV, France 24, NY1, WNYC, KCRW, KVPR, and WBUR. He is a three-time finalist for the National Awards for Education Reporting, and he was on a team that won a 2021 Association of Alternative Newsmedia Award. He holds an MS from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and a BA from Vassar College.