Barry on the radio

Picking Up the Pieces, a 2008 documentary about the growing role of parents in caring for veterans who return home severely injured from Iraq and Afghanistan. It was reported, co-produced, and narrated by Barry, and distributed by AARP's Prime Time Radio. Produced by Steve Mencher.

Voices of Katrina, a documentary reported and narrated by Barry, on AARP's Prime Time Radio. It was broadcast in 2007, on the second anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. Produced by Rachel McCarthy.

Barry discusses private military companies on Ian Masters' Background Briefing, KPFK-FM, Los Angeles; and on Worldview, WBEZ-FM, Chicago (click on April 2, 2004).

Outstanding freelance journalists

David France, author of Our Fathers: The Secret Life of the Catholic Church in an Age of Scandal, is a veteran journalist who has written for Newsweek; The New York Times; O, The Oprah Magazine; and Glamour. He has been a seminal influence on my career.

Rebecca Skloot specializes in science and medicine, but has been known to cover topics from food politics to eyeball jewelry. She writes for The New York Times, National Public Radio, New York Magazine, Popular Science, and Wilson Quarterly.

Cynthia Barnes has chronicled her adventures with marriage-minded nomads and bad-tempered bulls in Mali and swapped fashion tips with elephant-polo-playing transsexuals in Thailand. Her work has appeared in National Geographic, Premiere, Humanities, and Slate, and she currently lives in Bangkok.

Adam Penenberg garnered national attention in 1998 for unmasking serial fabricator Stephen Glass of The New Republic. His story is portrayed in the film Shattered Glass. Penenberg's new book, Tragic Indifference, recounts the biggest product-liability case in history, the Ford-Firestone fiasco.

Jonathan Green is a "participatory journalist" and adventure writer whose career began on a north London back street with eight skinheads, ten pints of Guinness and the loss of his front teeth. He writes about such topics as the perils of gold mining and the trafficking of young West African soccer players.

Kai Wright explores the explores the politics of sex, race, and health for publications ranging from Mother Jones to Essence. His forthcoming book, which will be released in 2008, is called Drifting Toward Love: Black, Brown, Gay and Coming of Age on the Streets of New York.

Janine Latus is the author of If I Am Missing Or Dead, about her sister's murder by a lover. She explores how two seemingly well-adjusted, successful women ended up in abusive relationships with men.

Charlie LeDuff reports from the real world with penetrating insight. As a New York Times correspondent, he crossed the border with Mexican immigrants and worked an assembly-line job at a North Carolina hog plant. Now a freelancer, he recently published US Guys, a road trip into the heart of American manhood.

Brendan Koerner, who writes for The New York Times, Slate, and Gizmodo, is currently finishing his first book, the true story of an American GI who blew away his commanding officer and then fled into the Indo-Burmese jungle.

Helen Epstein has written five books of literary non-fiction, including Children of the Holocaust and the biography Joe Papp: An American Life. When I was an undergraduate at NYU, she was my most influential professor, introducing me to long-form journalism before it was popular.

Christopher Ketcham has written about moonshining, hoboing, mountain lions, illegal immigration, machine politics, Enron, French cafeteria food, bike messengers, Internet porn addicts, off-road 4×4ing, Israeli espionage, and psychedelic herbs from Mexico. His credits include Harper's and Men's Journal.

Dave Denison, founding editor of CommonWealth magazine and a veteran of the crusading Texas Observer, writes about "the creaky mechanics of modern democracy," along with religion, constitutional law, and public opinion. Recent bylines have appeared in The New York Times and The Boston Globe.

Dan Drollette is a science writer whose credits include Natural History, Scientific American, Australian Geographic, International Wildlife, Discovery Channel Online, The Boston Globe, and Technology Review. His specialties include technology and the environment.

Sue Russell wrote the 2002 biography Lethal Intent, the inside story of serial killer Aileen Wuornos, who shot seven men to death in Florida and, after ten years on Death Row, was executed in October 2002. Her credits include The Washington Post, Daily Telegraph, and The Independent.

Erik Ness believes the best environmental writing is local. Based in Madison, Wisconsin, he has written about cancer clusters, invasive underwater species, and the relationship between his hometown and its beloved lakes. His work has been printed in Discover, Backpacker, and Preservation.

Michael Fitzgerald writes about technology and business trends for The Economist, Inc., Technology Review, The New York Times, and other publications. Eschewing blogs and self-publishing, he describes himself as "a fervent believer that print will rise again."

Jack El-Hai has won kudos for The Lobotomist, a biography and medical thriller that takes readers into one of the darkest chapters of American medicine-the desperate attempt to surgically treat hundreds of thousands of psychiatric patients during the mid-20th century.

Diane Daniel writes about travel, the outdoors, and people's lives. She's interested in what she calls "preservation travel"-travel that preserves cultures and community, history, buildings and the environment. Her work has appeared in the Boston Globe, The New York Times, Gourmet, and Shape.

Robin Mejia is a journalist with a background in biology. She has written for Popular Science, New Scientist, Mother Jones, and the Los Angeles Times, mostly about how science and technology are changing the way we live. She produced a CNN documentary about wrongful convictions based on crime-lab problems.

Vince Beiser specializes in criminal justice, but also tackles difficult stories like sex and AIDS in the Orthodox Jewish community. A former editor at Mother Jones, he now writes for the Los Angeles Times Magazine, Rolling Stone, and The Village Voice.

Of interest

Cybertimes Navigator, perhaps the best collection of online reference tools for journalists.

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