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New York Times. Kim Barker is a journalist who authored The Taliban Shuffle: Strange Days in Afghanistan and Pakistan about her experiences covering the war in Afghanistan. The book was adapted into the 2016 film Whiskey Tango Foxtrot and Barker was portrayed by Tina Fey . Barker was the South Asia bureau chief for the Chicago Tribune. [1]
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I’m based in New York but travel anywhere to cover issues of national importance, such as policing and housing. I try to give a voice to people who’ve traditionally been voiceless, and I pore through lawsuits, request public records and rely on data to ground articles in facts. More than anything, I want to tell stories about power: Who wins, who l...
I’ve been at The Times since 2014. In 2022, I was part of a team of reporters who won the Pulitzer Prize in national reporting for our work digging into fatalities at police traffic stops. In 2023, I became the first reporter at The Times to do a podcast with Serial, “The Coldest Case in Laramie,” about an unsolved murder that happened when I was a...
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Jun 28, 2016 · NEW YORK, NY - MARCH 01: Author Kim Barker attends the World Premiere of the Paramount Pictures title "Whiskey Tango Foxtrot", on March 1, 2016 at AMC Loews Lincoln Square in New York City, New York.
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Feb 24, 2023 · In January 2021, Kim Barker, an investigative reporter at The New York Times, was looking for her next story idea. Quarantining at home, she found that inspiration was hard to come by.
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Mar 1, 2016 · Kim Barker, the real foreign correspondent behind ‘Whiskey Tango Foxtrot’. Movies based on true stories are prone to overdramatization: a new romantic angle, a few extra daring feats. The war ...
By Kim Barker and Caitlin Dickerson. Nursing Homes Are Hot Spots in the Crisis. But Don’t Try Suing Them. In New York, 5,300 nursing home residents have died of Covid-19. The nursing home lobby ...
When Kim Barker first arrived in Kabul as a journalist in 2002, she barely owned a passport, spoke only English and had little idea how to do the “Taliban Shuffle” between Afghanistan and Pakistan. No matter—her stories about Islamic militants and shaky reconstruction were soon overshadowed by the bigger news in Iraq. But as she
