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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 .
It's based on "The Taliban Shuffle," a memoir by the newspaper war correspondent Kim Barker (see what they did there?). Both the book and the movie are really funny.
In 2021, Barker was one of the lead writers and reporters on a project on police traffic stops at The Times that was later awarded the Pulitzer Prize for national reporting. In 2023, Barker became the first reporter at The Times to do a podcast.
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
It is based on the memoir The Taliban Shuffle: Strange Days in Afghanistan and Pakistan by Kim Barker. The film stars Tina Fey, Margot Robbie, Martin Freeman, Alfred Molina, and Billy Bob Thornton. It was released on March 4, 2016, by Paramount Pictures.
Kim Barker, a Times investigative reporter, reflects on her formative years in Laramie, Wyo. — and on her return to the town decades later for the latest podcast from Serial and The New York...
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