Sheffield-Sterling-Strathcona Hall | Room: 114 — 1 Prospect Street
Our class has several stars leading and shaping the course of modern day journalism and making waves on the domestic and international stage via print, tv, and digital media platforms. Join us for a lively conversation about their journey and their perspective on current affairs. Included below are the bios for each speaker:
Perry Bacon Jr.
Perry Bacon Jr. is a Washington Post columnist. He focuses on two major themes: the growing radicalism of the Republican Party and the right; and the efforts, mostly on the left and among Democrats, to create a more just, equitable society. Before joining The Post in May 2021, Perry had stints as a government and elections writer for Time magazine, The Post's politics desk, theGrio and FiveThirtyEight. He has also been been an on-air analyst at MSNBC and a fellow at New America. He grew up in Louisville and lives there now.
Michael Barbaro (Moderator)
Michael Barbaro is a staff writer at The New York Times, where he has extensively covered national and state politics. He currently hosts one of the most popular podcasts, “The Daily,” which recaps key events covered by The New York Times. In 2018, Barbaro won a Alfred I. duPont-Columbia Award, one of the most prestigious awards in journalism, for his work on The Daily. Before joining The Times in 2005, Barbaro worked at the Washington Post, NBC News, and The Miami Herald. He majored in History at Yale and was a reporter and editor in chief of the Yale Daily News.
Ben Reiter
Ben Reiter is the author of Astroball: The New Way to Win It All, a New York Times bestseller, and the host and producer of The Edge, a documentary series which was named one of the top podcasts of 2020 by The Atlantic, Podcast Review, and Spotify. As a longtime senior writer for Sports Illustrated, his feature 'The Seeker: The Complicated Life and Death of Hideki Irabu' won the 2018 Deadline Award for Magazine Profile, and his pieces have four times been honored as notable selections in the annual The Best American Sportswriting series. He holds a BA in History from Yale and an MPhil in International Relations from Cambridge, and is a member of the board of directors of The Marshall Project, a nonprofit news organization covering the criminal justice system. He lives in New York City.
Clarissa Ward
Clarissa Ward is CNN’s chief international correspondent. She has spent nearly two decades reporting from front lines in Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, Egypt and Ukraine for ABC, CBS and Fox News. A recipient of multiple journalism recognitions including nine Emmy Awards, two George Foster Peabody Awards, two Alfred I. duPont-Columbia Awards, two Edward R. Murrow Awards and one George Polk Award, Ward is the author of ‘On All Fronts: The Education of a Journalist’ (Penguin Press), which details her singular career as a conflict reporter and how she has documented the violent remaking of the world from close range.
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0Y2 Class Panel: Yalies in Journalism
Our class has several stars leading and shaping the course of modern day journalism and making waves on the domestic and international stage via print, tv, and digital media platforms. Join us for a lively conversation about their journey and their perspective on current affairs. Included below are the bios for each speaker:
Perry Bacon Jr.
Perry Bacon Jr. is a Washington Post columnist. He focuses on two major themes: the growing radicalism of the Republican Party and the right; and the efforts, mostly on the left and among Democrats, to create a more just, equitable society. Before joining The Post in May 2021, Perry had stints as a government and elections writer for Time magazine, The Post's politics desk, theGrio and FiveThirtyEight. He has also been been an on-air analyst at MSNBC and a fellow at New America. He grew up in Louisville and lives there now.
Michael Barbaro (Moderator)
Michael Barbaro is a staff writer at The New York Times, where he has extensively covered national and state politics. He currently hosts one of the most popular podcasts, “The Daily,” which recaps key events covered by The New York Times. In 2018, Barbaro won a Alfred I. duPont-Columbia Award, one of the most prestigious awards in journalism, for his work on The Daily. Before joining The Times in 2005, Barbaro worked at the Washington Post, NBC News, and The Miami Herald. He majored in History at Yale and was a reporter and editor in chief of the Yale Daily News.
Ben Reiter
Ben Reiter is the author of Astroball: The New Way to Win It All, a New York Times bestseller, and the host and producer of The Edge, a documentary series which was named one of the top podcasts of 2020 by The Atlantic, Podcast Review, and Spotify. As a longtime senior writer for Sports Illustrated, his feature 'The Seeker: The Complicated Life and Death of Hideki Irabu' won the 2018 Deadline Award for Magazine Profile, and his pieces have four times been honored as notable selections in the annual The Best American Sportswriting series. He holds a BA in History from Yale and an MPhil in International Relations from Cambridge, and is a member of the board of directors of The Marshall Project, a nonprofit news organization covering the criminal justice system. He lives in New York City.
Clarissa Ward
Clarissa Ward is CNN’s chief international correspondent. She has spent nearly two decades reporting from front lines in Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, Egypt and Ukraine for ABC, CBS and Fox News. A recipient of multiple journalism recognitions including nine Emmy Awards, two George Foster Peabody Awards, two Alfred I. duPont-Columbia Awards, two Edward R. Murrow Awards and one George Polk Award, Ward is the author of ‘On All Fronts: The Education of a Journalist’ (Penguin Press), which details her singular career as a conflict reporter and how she has documented the violent remaking of the world from close range.
Sheffield-Sterling-Strathcona Hall | Room: 114 — 1 Prospect Street
