Barry Bearak
Journalist, Award Winner
1949 –
Who is Barry Bearak?
Barry Leon Bearak is an American journalist and professor of journalism who has worked as a reporter and correspondent for The Miami Herald, The Los Angeles Times, and The New York Times. He also taught journalism as a visiting professor at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. Since August 2011, Bearak has been working for the Sports staff of the New York Times.
Bearak won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting for his penetrating accounts of poverty and war in Afghanistan. The Pulitzer Prize committee cited him "for his deeply affecting and illuminating coverage of daily life in war-torn Afghanistan.". Bearak was also a Pulitzer finalist in feature writing in 1987.
On April 3, 2008, Bearak was taken into custody by Zimbabwean police as part of a crackdown on journalists covering the 2008 Zimbabwean election. He was charged with "falsely presenting himself as a journalist" in violation of the strict accreditation requirements that were imposed by the government of Robert Mugabe. Despite worldwide condemnation and court petitions that were filed immediately to release him from detention, Bearak remained in a detention cell in Harare for 5 days.
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- Born
- Aug 31, 1949
Chicago - Spouses
- Children
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign
- Knox College
- Employment
- Columbia University
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on July 23, 2013
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