Marvin Barrett

Marvin Galbraith Barrett (May 6, 1920 - August 19, 2006) was an American author and educator known as an authority on broadcast journalism.^[1]

Barrett was born in Des Moines, Iowa. His father, Edwin, was a radio actor and taught communications at Drake University.^[1] Barrett graduated from Harvard University in 1942. He served in the United States Navy from 1942 to 1946.^[1] In 1952 Barrett married Mary Ellin Berlin, daughter of Irving Berlin.^[1]

Barrett worked as a contributing editor to TIME and Newsweek magazines, executive editor of Show Business Illustrated, and managing editor of Show Magazine.^[1]

For many years, Barrett was the director of the DuPont-Columbia Survey of Broadcast Journalism. He received the Sigma Delta Chi Award for distinguished journalism for its 1975 report Moments of Truth.^[2]

A near death experience in 1984 inspired Barrett to keep journals, and resulted in his 1999 book Second Chance: A Life After Death.^[3]

Barrett died in Manhattan as a result of congestive heart failure.^[1]

Bibliography

• Meet Thomas Jefferson (1967, Random House Children's Books, ISBN 0-3949-0067-7)
• The Politics of Broadcasting (1973, Crowell, ISBN 0-6906-4696-8)
• Moments of Truth (1975, Crowell, ISBN 0-8152-0370-5)
• The End of the Party (1976, Putnam, ISBN 0-3991-1745-8)
• Rich News, Poor News (1978, Crowell, ISBN 0-6900-1741-3)
• The Eye of the Storm (with Zachary Sklar, 1980, Lippincott & Crowell, ISBN 0-6900-1876-2)
• Broadcast Journalism, 1979-1981 (editor, 1982, Everest House, ISBN 0-8969-6160-5)
• Spare Days (1988, Arbor House, ISBN 1-5571-0006-3)
• Second Chance: A Life After Death (1999, Parabola, ISBN 0-9304-0742-3)

References

1. ^ ^{a b c d e f} Fox, Margalit (August 22, 2006). "Marvin Barrett, 86, a Leader in Journalism Broadcasting, Is Dead". The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/22/obituaries/22barrett.html. Retrieved January 22, 2010. 
2. ^ "Man In Novelists' Family Turns Hand To Writing". Sarasota Herald-Tribune. September 19, 1976. http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=5E40AAAAIBAJ&sjid=OWcEAAAAIBAJ&dq=marvin-barrett&pg=6223%2C1501984. Retrieved January 22, 2010. 
3. ^ "When Pastimes Turn Into Passions and Passions Into Books; A Near-Death Experience And a New Lease on Life". The New York Times. September 19, 1999. http://www.nytimes.com/1999/09/19/nyregion/when-pastimes-turn-into-passions-passions-into-books-near-death-experience-new.html. Retrieved January 23, 2010. 

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Date of birth	May 6, 1920
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