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Matthew Price is the BBC's New York correspondent, covering politics, the economy and events across the Americas.
Before he started this post in October 2007, Matthew was the BBC's Middle East correspondent based in Jerusalem.
During his years there he covered the 2006 Lebanon war, the death of Yasser Arafat, and Israel's withdrawal of settlers from the Gaza Strip.
He has travelled widely across the Middle East, and reported from Iraq and the Gulf during and after the 2003 US-led invasion.
He was the BBC's Belgrade correspondent from 2002 and covered events across the former Yugoslavia and Albania.
Matthew joined the BBC in 1994 as a trainee reporter for local radio.
He went on to work as a reporter for BBC Radio Lincolnshire between 1995 and 1997 and for BBC Newcastle from 1997 to 1999.
In 1999 he joined Newsround, the BBC's flagship current affairs programme for children.
He has received a number of awards for his work.
In 2000 he was voted the Royal Television Society's Young Journalist of the Year.
Two years later, along with producer Audrey Neil and cameraman Mark McCauley, he won a BAFTA for his work in Afghanistan following the Taleban's fall from power.
Born in London in June 1972, Matthew graduated from
Cambridge University in 1994 with a degree in Geography.
