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Matt Connor, 38, is currently the Senior Editor of IGWB, a trade magazine covering the legal gaming entertainment industry worldwide. At IGWB Connor initiated the magazine's coverage of the Native American gaming industry, eventually developing a bi-weekly fax newsletter, Indian Gaming News and, later, a quarterly supplement to IGWB entitled Indian Gaming Business. In addition to his duties as Senior Editor of IGWB, Connor also serves as Editor-In-Chief of the Indian gaming quarterly. As a recognized national expert on the subject, Connor's views and opinions on Indian gaming have been cited in The New York Times Magazine, The Washington Post, USA Today, The New York Times (Metro Section), The Boston Globe, Minnesota Public Radio, New York Newsday, CNBC and the Fox News Network. Since 1992 Connor has also helped coordinate trade show and conference seminars on the topic of Indian gaming for IGWB's sister trade show division. He was instrumental in the creation of the California Indian Gaming Summit in 1998 and has organized seminars with multiple expert speakers for the World Gaming Congress & Expo (the largest trade show and conference for the gaming industry worldwide), the International Gaming Business Expo and the New York Gaming Summit. He has also moderated panels at several of those shows. From 1998 through 2000 Connor served as Managing Editor of MR, a New York-based fashion/business monthly covering the men's apparel industry, from the hottest styles on the runways of Europe to what the typical man-on-the-street is wearing to how retailers can get the most out of their menswear assortment. Connor was also a Contributing Editor of MR from 2000 through 2001. In 1988, while working for the suburban weekly Bernardsville (NJ) News, Connor's work came to the attention of the late Malcolm Forbes, who invited Connor to accompany the publisher and his companion, film star Elizabeth Taylor, to a carnival-style benefit for the Muscular Dystrophy Association in Knoebel's Grove, Penn. Due to storm conditions, Connor ended up briefly stranded in Forbes' helicopter with Taylor. His subsequent newspaper story about the day's adventures brought a job offer from Forbes, who hired Connor to be editor-in-chief of his in-house magazine, the Forbes Piper. He was only 23 at the time and about eight months out of college. Connor worked at Forbes Inc. through the 1990 death of Malcolm Forbes, Sr., and, for one year, under the supervision of Steve Forbes, the current Forbes Inc. CEO and former U.S. Presidential candidate. While there, Connor created a Malcolm S. Forbes memorial issue of the Piper, which went into a second printing, the first and only time that occurred in the Piper's 35-year history. He also wrote the definitive history of the Forbes building. Since graduating from Lock Haven University of Pennsylvania (where he developed the first swimsuit edition of the campus newspaper and launched a soap opera, Love's Passionate Dormitory, at the university TV station), Connor has contributed to various newspapers and magazines, including Forbes FYI, POZ, Genre, Unique Homes, Travelware and Men's Style. In 1993 Connor won the BMT Editorial Achievement Award for Outstanding News Analysis for his investigative story, "Corruption on the Reservation." In 2003 Lock Haven University of Pennsylvania presented him with the Rebecca Gross Alumni Award for Outstanding Contributions in the Field of Journalism. He completed his first non-fiction book, Watering Hole: The Colorful History of Booze, Sex and Death at a New Jersey Tavern, in 2003. In 2001 he completed his first novel, Desperate Ambition, for which he is currently seeking agency representation and a publisher. Connor resides in Northern New Jersey with his companion of twelve years, and their four Boston Terriers, Emma, Sammy, Sophie and Harry.
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MATT CONNOR