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David Barstow

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David Barstow
David Barstow May 2004 2.jpg
In May 2004
Born1963 (age 58–59)
Massachusetts, U.S.
Alma materNorthwestern University (BS)
Occupation
  • Journalist
  • academic
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Awards

David Barstow (born 1963) is an American journalist and professor. While a reporter at The New York Times from 1999 to 2019, Barstow was awarded, individually or jointly, four Pulitzer Prizes, becoming the first reporter in the history of the Pulitzers to be awarded this many.[1] In 2019, Barstow joined the faculty of the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism as a professor of investigative journalism.[2]

Background

Born in the Boston area, Barstow received a Bachelor of Science in journalism from Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism in 1986.[3]

Career

Barstow worked for the St. Petersburg Times in Florida, where he was a finalist for three Pulitzer Prizes in reporting in 1997 and 1998.[4] Following his tenure at the St. Petersburg Times, Barstow worked at The New York Times from 1999 to 2019, and was an investigative reporter there from 2002. His other newspaper affiliations include The Rochester Times-Union and the Green Bay Press-Gazette.

The New York Times

The New York Times was awarded the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service, which recognized "the work of David Barstow and Lowell Bergman that relentlessly examined death and injury among American workers and exposed employers who break basic safety rules."[5]

In 2009, Barstow received the Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting for "his tenacious reporting that revealed how some retired generals, working as radio and television analysts, had been co-opted by the Pentagon to make its case for the war in Iraq, and how many of them also had undisclosed ties to companies that benefited from policies they defended."[6]

Barstow and Alejandra Xanic von Bertrab shared the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting and the Gerald Loeb Award for Investigative business journalism for exposing how Wal-Mart used bribery to dominate the market in Mexico.[7][8]

Barstow shared the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting with Susanne Craig and Russ Buettner[9] for their reporting on the methods Donald Trump and his family used to avoid paying roughly half a billion dollars in taxes.[1]

Ethics controversy

Soon after the team received the prize, it emerged that Barstow had alienated his colleagues by attempting to enter into an agreement to ghostwrite a book with one of their most secret sources, which would be a violation of the Times' ethical guidelines. In addition, Barstow had greatly upset the source by making an unannounced visit to his or her apartment, possibly putting the source's cooperation with the team at risk. Several subsequent New York Times stories about the Trump family's finances appeared under the bylines of Craig and Buettner, but not Barstow.[10][11] In July 2019, Barstow departed the Times to join the faculty of the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism as the Reva and David Logan Distinguished Chair in Investigative Journalism.[12]

In June 2020, The Daily Beast reported this source was Mary L. Trump, the daughter of Fred Trump Jr. and niece of Donald Trump, who was so alarmed by Barstow's behavior she considered calling the police.[13] Trump wrote her book, Too Much and Never Enough, without Barstow.[14]

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2004 Pulitzer Prize

2004 Pulitzer Prize

The Pulitzer Prizes for 2004 were announced on April 5, 2004.

Pulitzer Prize for Public Service

Pulitzer Prize for Public Service

The Pulitzer Prize for Public Service is one of the fourteen American Pulitzer Prizes annually awarded for journalism. It recognizes a distinguished example of meritorious public service by a newspaper or news site through the use of its journalistic resources, which may include editorials, cartoons, photographs, graphics, video and other online material, and may be presented in print or online or both.

Lowell Bergman

Lowell Bergman

Lowell Bergman is an American journalist, television producer and professor of journalism. In a career spanning nearly five decades Bergman worked as a producer, a reporter, and then the director of investigative reporting at ABC News and as a producer for CBS's 60 Minutes, leaving in 1998 as the senior producer of investigations for CBS News. He also was the founder of the investigative reporting program at the Graduate School of Journalism at UC Berkeley and for 28 years taught there as professor. He was also a producer/correspondent for the PBS documentary series Frontline. In 2019, Bergman retired.

Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting

Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting

The Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting has been awarded since 1953, under one name or another, for a distinguished example of investigative reporting by an individual or team, presented as a single article or series in a U.S. news publication. It is administered by the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in New York City.

Alejandra Xanic von Bertrab

Alejandra Xanic von Bertrab

Alejandra Xanic von Bertrab Wilhelm is a Mexican investigative journalist. She won the Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting in 2013 along with David Barstow.

Gerald Loeb Award

Gerald Loeb Award

The Gerald Loeb Award, also referred to as the Gerald Loeb Award for Distinguished Business and Financial Journalism, is a recognition of excellence in journalism, especially in the fields of business, finance and the economy. The award was established in 1957 by Gerald Loeb, a founding partner of E.F. Hutton & Co. Loeb's intention in creating the award was to encourage reporters to inform and protect private investors as well as the general public in the areas of business, finance and the economy.

2019 Pulitzer Prize

2019 Pulitzer Prize

The 2019 Pulitzer Prizes were awarded by the Pulitzer Prize Board for work during the 2018 calendar year. Prize winners and nominated finalists were announced by administrator Dana Canedy at 3:00 p.m. EST on April 15, 2019.

Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting

Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting

The Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting has been presented since 1998, for a distinguished example of explanatory reporting that illuminates a significant and complex subject, demonstrating mastery of the subject, lucid writing and clear presentation. From 1985 to 1997, it was known as the Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Journalism.

Susanne Craig

Susanne Craig

Susanne Craig is a Canadian investigative journalist who works at The New York Times. She was the reporter who was anonymously mailed Donald Trump's 1995 tax returns during the 2016 presidential election. In 2018, she was an author of The New York Times investigation into Donald Trump's wealth that found the president inherited hundreds of millions of dollars from his father, some through fraudulent tax schemes. She won the Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting in 2019 for this coverage. In 2020, she further reported on Donald Trump tax record which disclosed that he paid $750 in federal income tax during 2016 and nothing at all in 10 of the previous 15 years. Craig is also known for her coverage of the financial crisis of 2007–2008 and of New York State and New York City government and politics.

Russ Buettner

Russ Buettner

Russ Buettner is an American investigative journalist who works for The New York Times. In 2019 he and two colleagues received the Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting for a 2018 series of articles about the finances of Donald Trump.

Donald Trump

Donald Trump

Donald John Trump is an American politician, media personality, and businessman who served as the 45th president of the United States from 2017 to 2021.

Mary L. Trump

Mary L. Trump

Mary Lea Trump is an American psychologist and author. A niece of former president Donald Trump, she has been critical of him as well as the rest of the Trump family. Her 2020 book about him and the family, Too Much and Never Enough, sold nearly one million copies on the day of its release. A second book, The Reckoning, followed in 2021.

Source: "David Barstow", Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, (2022, October 17th), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Barstow.

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Further Reading

Medill School of Journalism

Lowell Bergman

David Cay Johnston

Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting

UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism

The Daily Northwestern

List of Pulitzer Prizes awarded to The New York Times

Jo Becker

John Carreyrou

Hannah Dreier

Kyaw Soe Oo
Bibliography
  • Barstow, David; Craig, Suzanne; Buettner, Russ (October 2, 2018). "Trump Engaged in Suspect Tax Schemes as He Reaped Riches From His Father". The New York Times. Retrieved October 2, 2018.
References
  1. ^ a b Grynbaum, Michael M. (April 15, 2019). "Pulitzer Prizes Focus on Coverage of Trump Finances and Parkland Shooting". The New York Times. Retrieved April 15, 2019.
  2. ^ "Four-time Pulitzer Prize Winner David Barstow joins Berkeley Journalism". July 15, 2019. Retrieved January 30, 2020.
  3. ^ "David Barstow (BSJ86)–Medill–Northwestern University". Northwestern University. Retrieved January 31, 2020.
  4. ^ "The Pulitzer Prizes | Biography". Pulitzer.org. Pulitzer Prize. January 21, 1963. Retrieved September 3, 2010.
  5. ^ "The 2004 Pulitzer Prize Winners: Public Service". The Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved November 19, 2013. With short biographies and reprints of 11 works (NY Times articles January 8 to December 23, 2003).
  6. ^ The 2009 Pulitzer Prize Winners: Investigative Reporting. The Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved April 20, 2009. With short biography and reprints of three works (NY Times articles April 20 and November 30, 2008).
  7. ^ "The 2013 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Investigative Reporting". The Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved February 19, 2019.
  8. ^ "UCLA Anderson School of Management Announces 2013 Gerald Loeb Award Winners". PR Newswire. June 25, 2013. Retrieved February 2, 2019.
  9. ^ Grynbaum, Michael M. (April 15, 2019). "Sentinel Wins Public Service Pulitzer for Parkland Shooting Coverage". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331.
  10. ^ Cartwright, Lachlan (June 26, 2019). "New York Times' Trump Tax Team Imploded When Star Reporter David Barstow Went Rogue". The Daily Beast. Retrieved October 8, 2019.
  11. ^ Tani, Maxwell; Cartwright, Lachlan (July 16, 2019). "NYT Reporter Leaves Following Implosion of Trump Taxes Team". The Daily Beast. Retrieved October 8, 2019.
  12. ^ "David Barstow". UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism.
  13. ^ Cartwright, Lachlan (June 14, 2020). "Revealed: The Family Member Who Turned on Trump". The Daily Beast. Retrieved June 15, 2020.
  14. ^ Pompeo, Joe (June 16, 2020). ""She Feels Very Determined": How Mary Trump's Coming Bombshell Was Built". Vanity Fair. Retrieved June 16, 2021.
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