Dan Barry
This truth is hard: Longtime writer for The New York Times. Books include "This Land: America, Lost and Found." bit.ly/tland1
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The Sunday Read: ‘Jim Dwyer, About New York’
A farewell to the late Pulitzer Prize-winning Times journalist.
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Dan Barry
For The Daily’s Sunday Read, I talk a little about my friend and @nytimes colleague, the late Jim Dwyer, and read two of his columns. It was a privilege.
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Jim Dwyer, Pulitzer Prize-Winning Journalist, Dies at 63
Working for New York Newsday, The Daily News and The Times, he covered the human stories of New York in dramatic prose and crusaded against injustice.
The Friendshipof Elena and Tom
It’s rare that someone meets her favorite ballplayer. It’s even rarer that he becomes a fan of hers.
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Dan Barry
What a well-told story by Vincent M. Mallozzi, of the friendship that developed between Tom Seaver and our colleague Elena Gustines.
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A Weapon for Extortion Long Ignored in Alabama Prisons: Cellphones
Families say they have been threatened by call and text into sending thousands of dollars to protect loved ones on the inside. Some suffered anyway.
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Dan Barry
Smuggled in by prison guards, thrown over fences, hidden in gifts. How a simple cellphone becomes a tool of extortion, as experienced in the troubled Alabama corrections system. With my friend, the indefatigable @sergenyt. Photos by @flanagan_annie.
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The Sounds of New York City Have Changed. Listen for Yourself.
These are the sounds of a pre-pandemic New York: A parade in the streets, the roar of fans at a ballgame, the bustle of the subway. And here are those scenes today, echoes of city life that are unsettling and yet also reassuring, reminding us of the...
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Dan Barry
Where else but New York? Here is a very special @nytimes project that evokes - through image, text, and sound - the city of our pre-pandemic memory and the city now. Beautifully conceived and designed. Evocative photos by @heislerphoto; essay by me.
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Remembering the Nearly 100,000 Lives Lost to Coronavirus in America
As the U.S. approaches a grim milestone in the outbreak, The New York Times gathered names of the dead and memories of their lives from obituaries across the country.
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A Reporter’s Lonely Mission When the Writing Is on the Wall
His newspaper has withered under a hedge fund. His industry was in turmoil even before a pandemic. But Evan Brandt won’t stop chronicling his town.
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Dan Barry
Photographers and videographers are absolutely essential to local journalism - a reality underscored by the haunting, evocative work of @hsakagphoto that accompanies my story: A Reporter’s Lonely Mission When the Writing Is on the Wall
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Dan Barry
He's the last reporter in Pottstown, Pa., where the once-proud newspaper - now owned by a hedge fund - is operating on fumes and his idealism. What's at stake? Only an informed electorate, government accountability, and a sense of community. My story
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Dan Barry
As part of a new feature at @nytimes, I've narrated my piece about newspapers and the last reporter in town, Evan Brandt (@PottstownNews). So now you can hear my mellifluous Long Island voice for yourselves! Very cool, and thank you, @laurakim.
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Black Tulsans, With a Defiant Juneteenth Celebration, Send a Message to Trump
The president arrives in a city that is in the midst of addressing long-ignored racist history. People there believe the country as a whole could learn a lot from them.
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Dan Barry
Pitch-perfect and just to the very last word, by @AsteadWesley: "Black Tulsans, With a Defiant Juneteenth Celebration, Send a Message to Trump."
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John Prine - "I Remember Everything"
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Dan Barry
The last recorded song of John Prine, American poet to the very last line: “I Remember Everything.”
@JohnPrineMusic @FionaPrine
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George Floyd, From ‘I Want to Touch the World’ to ‘I Can’t Breathe’
Mr. Floyd had big plans for life nearly 30 years ago. His death in police custody is powering a movement against police brutality and racial injustice.
New York Times Says Senator’s Op-Ed Did Not Meet Standards
After a staff uproar, The Times says the editing process was “rushed.” Senator Tom Cotton’s “Send In the Troops” essay is now under review.
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Dan Barry
The New York Times acknowledges that Senator Cotton’s op-ed - which ran online under the headline "Send in the Troops" - did not meet standards
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Was That a Firecracker or a Gunshot? Unpredictability on America’s Streets
Hundreds of confrontations are playing out between protesters and police officers nationwide, some devolving into violence in a finger snap.
She Fed Her Sick Flock During the 1918 Pandemic. Her Legacy Lives On.
An old woman leaves a pot of food on a rock outside her daughter’s house. A century later, others roll trays of meals to people with Covid-19.
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Dan Barry
If it weren't for small kindnesses in times like these, where would we be? If it weren't for the likes of Nan the Pot a century ago, for example, well -- let @jimdwyernyt give personal testimony.
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Trump Tweets and Golfs, but Makes No Mention of Virus’s Toll
Coronavirus deaths in the United States approached a staggering 100,000, a number the president once predicted would never be reached.
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Dan Barry
When not "zipping around on a cart, he was on social media embracing fringe conspiracy theories, amplifying messages from a racist and sexist Twitter account and lobbing playground insults at perceived enemies." The great @PeterBakerNYT on the President.
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‘Lord Have Mercy’: Inside One of New York’s Deadliest ZIP Codes
In early March, doctors at St. John’s hospital in Far Rockaway identified the first Covid-19 patient in Queens. Now, there is an uneasy lull and the staff fears a second wave will come.
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Dan Barry
Here is a powerful 13-minute doc about the virus's impact on one hospital in one corner of NYC. Devastating work by @KassieBracken and Emily Rhyne: ‘Lord Have Mercy’: Inside One of New York’s Deadliest ZIP Codes nyti.ms/2APFpul via @nytvideo
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If Life Is a Movie, It’s Called ‘Closed Until Further Notice’
The coronavirus has plunged America into uncertainty, leaving towns across the country struggling to find their moorings.
The ‘Boys’ in the Bunkhouse
For decades, dozens of men with intellectual disabilities lived in an old schoolhouse and worked in a turkey plant. No one knew just what they endured.
Willie Levi, 73, Dies; He Escaped a Life of Servitude
He was one of a group of men with disabilities who worked for substandard wages at a turkey plant but found justice. He succumbed to the new coronavirus.
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Dan Barry
The coronavirus has claimed the singular Willie Levi, 73, one of the "bunkhouse" men with intellectual disability who worked for decades in turkey-plant servitude in Iowa. He was righteous; you would have liked him. Here's my tribute
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For Mark Meadows, the Transition From Trump Confidant to Chief of Staff Is a Hard One
Only weeks into the job, the former congressman has confronted the same problems that frustrated his three predecessors. It hasn’t helped him with his new White House colleagues that he’s emotional and sometimes cries.
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Dan Barry
The latest story by the first-rate, Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter @maggieNYT. Honored to call her a colleague: For Mark Meadows, Transition From Trump Confidant to Chief of Staff Is a Hard One
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Tarlach MacNiallais, Who Fought for Gay and Disability Rights, Dies at 57
Mr. MacNiallais helped organize the St. Pat’s For All Parade in Queens, a more inclusive version of the annual parade on Fifth Avenue.
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Dan Barry
Among those we’ve lost: Tarlach MacNiallais, great champion of inclusion for the long excluded. Here’s my small obit/tribute
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