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Wayne Barrett (July 11, 1945 – January 19, 2017) was an American journalist. He worked as an investigative reporter and senior editor for The Village Voice for 37 years, and was known as a leading investigative journalist focused on power and politics in the United States.
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Jan 20, 2017 · A tribute to the legendary New York journalist who died at 71, after a long and influential career of reporting on Trump's rise and fall. Barrett was the first to take Trump seriously, the most influential chronicler of his corruption, and the author of a best-selling book on his deals and downfall.
- mkruse@politico.com
Feb 12, 2024 · A Brief Oral History of Wayne Barrett, the First Journalist to Doggedly Cover Donald Trump. Then a fresh-faced real estate scion, Trump was seen as the “embodiment of a rising city,” Barrett...
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Jan 20, 2017 · Wayne Barrett, a muckraker who wrote the book on Donald Trump and chronicled his rise and fall, died at age 71 from interstitial lung disease. He was a scourge of New York City power brokers and a tenacious chronicler of the city's political culture. He covered Trump from the 1970s and wrote about his criminal past, business associations and hypocrisy.
Jan 19, 2017 · Wayne Barrett, the muckraking Village Voice columnist who carved out a four-decade career tilting at developers, landlords and politicians, among them Donald J. Trump and Rudolph W. Giuliani,...
Jan 19, 2017 · NEW YORK (AP) — Investigative reporter Wayne Barrett, a scourge of New York City power brokers from Rudolph Giuliani to Michael Bloomberg during a decades-long career with the Village Voice and an early and tenacious chronicler of President-elect Donald Trump, died Thursday at age 71.
Nov 10, 2016 · Jennifer Gonnerman on the investigative reporter Wayne Barrett, who began writing about Donald Trump in the nineteen-seventies and wrote a 1991 book about Trump.