Matt Jancer

Magazine essayist, journalist, and writer. Sixteen years, twenty-two mastheads.

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Automotive & Moto Road tests, columns, news, & features

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Outdoors Adventure & gear testing

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Open Book Podcast NYC literary conversations

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Haydon 160 Book Coming late 2026

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“Good stories don’t necessarily have to provide the answer to anything. But they always ask the right questions.”

Since April 2010 I’ve been a working magazine journalist covering cars, motorcycles, and the outdoors, with branches grown and nourished along the way into mental health, tech, travel, politics, wellness, and DIY. And I’ve never yet seen a story that, at its core, wasn’t about people.

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Bylines — Outside · Esquire · Men's Journal · Car and Driver · Road & Track · Smithsonian · WIRED · VICE · Popular Mechanics
Popular Science · Playboy · Men's Health · The History Channel Magazine · Garden & Gun · Automobile · Hot Rod
Grassroots Motorsports · American Songwriter · Afar · GearJunkie · Better Report