Speaker Details
Matthew Garrahan
Los Angeles Correspondent, Financial Times
Matthew Garrahan is the Los Angeles Correspondent for the Financial Times. His beat includes media and entertainment, leisure and California politics.
Previously, Mr Garrahan was based in London covering the leisure industries beat, where he wrote about the hotel, travel and gambling industries. He has also worked as sports business correspondent, reporting on major sports events including the Sydney Olympics, the 2002 World Cup in Japan and Korea, the European Football Championships in Portugal and the Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City.
He has worked for the FT for nine years and was awarded the LA Press Club's Entertainment News Award in 2008 for his story on Hollywood and the credit crunch.
Mr Garrahan appears regularly on CNN, BBC TV, Sky news, BBC Radio Four's Today programme and ITV News.
