Faculty

Barry Bearak

Visiting Assistant Professor of Journalism

Barry Bearak is a reporter for The New York Times. Most recently, he has been a staff writer for the newspaper’s Sunday magazine, reporting from Afghanistan, Malawi, Pakistan, Brazil and Indonesia. Before that, he was the co-South Asia bureau chief, based in New Delhi. Bearak won the Pulitzer Prize and the George Polk Award for his reporting from Afghanistan and Pakistan in 2001. A visitor to some of the world’s most remote places, he is an expert on intestinal parasites and corrupt border guards.

Prior to joining The New York Times, Bearak spent 15 years as a roving national correspondent for The Los Angeles Times. His series about the decline of the American labor movement won the James Aronson Award for Social Justice. His series about heroin addicts in Brooklyn received the Mike Berger Award. He was a named finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in feature writing for stories about an aging stand-up comic and rape in a Florida prison. Bearak earned a B.A. from Knox College and an M.S. in journalism from the University of Illinois. He lives in Pelham, N.Y. with his wife, Celia Dugger, and their two sons.