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David Barstow (born January 21, 1963) is an American journalist.
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Life
Born in Boston, he received a bachelor's degree from Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism in 1986. Barstow has worked for The New York Times since 1999, and has been an investigative reporter there since 2002.
He worked for The St. Petersburg Times in Florida, where he was a finalist for three Pulitzer Prizes: in 1997 for spot news; in 1998 for investigative reporting; and in 1998 for explanatory journalism.[1]
In 2004, he shared the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service with Lowell Bergman. Their investigative reporting examined death and injury among American workers and exposed employers who break basic safety rules.[2]
In 2009 he won the Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting.[3]
In his award-winning story in The New York Times, headlined "Behind TV Analysts, Pentagon's Hidden Hand", Barstow reported that the Department of Defense recruited over 75 retired military officers, some with undisclosed ties to defense contractors, to appear on major news outlets as military analysts commenting on the Iraq war and the case in its favor.[4] He wrote, "Records and interviews show how the Bush administration has used its control over access and information in an effort to transform the analysts into a kind of media Trojan horse—an instrument intended to shape terrorism coverage from inside the major TV and radio networks." Although the Pentagon initially issued a statement exonerating the program, the Pentagon inspector general's office later said it was flawed, and the statement was withdrawn.[5]
Hidden Hand story
Most American television networks (ABC, CBS, NBC, MSNBC, CNN and Fox: incidentally, these are the ones that were criticized in the report) have failed to either mention Barstow's name in their news reports, or talk about his investigations that suggest the officers whose views they aired were biased.[6] Nevertheless, after Barstow won the Pulitzer, he opined that his story had prompted some improvements in the networks' practices.[7]
Notes
- ^ "The Pulitzer Prizes | Biography". Pulitzer.org. 1963-01-21. http://www.pulitzer.org/biography/2009-Investigative-Reporting. Retrieved 2010-09-03.
- ^ The 2004 Pulitzer Prize Winners - Public Service
- ^ The 2009 Pulitzer Prize Winners: Investigative Reporting. The Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved on 20 April 2009.
- ^ Barstow, David (April 20, 2008). "Behind TV Analysts, Pentagon’s Hidden Hand". The New York Times: pp. A1. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/20/us/20generals.html
- ^ "EXCLUSIVE...Pentagon Pundits: New York Times Reporter David Barstow Wins Pulitzer Prize for Exposing Military's Pro-War Propaganda Media Campaign". Democracynow.org. http://www.democracynow.org/2009/5/8/pentagons_pundits_ny_times_reporter_david. Retrieved 2010-09-03.
- ^ Greenwald, Glenn. The Pulitzer-winning investigation that dare not be uttered on TV. Salon. April 21, 2009.
- ^ Strupp, Joe (April 23, 2009). "NYT's Barstow: Pulitzer-Winning 'Generals' Story Has Made a Difference". Editor and Publisher. http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003965178
External links
- Biography at The New York Times
Categories:- 1963 births
- Living people
- Medill School of Journalism alumni
- Northwestern University alumni
- Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting winners
- American journalist, 1960s birth stubs
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