Covering Today's America
provided by UW La Follette School of Public Affairs
A close-up of Michael Barbaro.
Michael Barbaro
media release: Michael Barbaro, host of The Daily, The New York Times' flagship news podcast, will headline a special public event with the La Follette School of Public Affairs on October 20. Tickets available Sept 14; free, with an option to make a donation.
Michael Barbaro, award-winning journalist and host of The Daily, will discuss the challenges and opportunities of covering America during a period of political polarization. Drawing on years of reporting and interviewing newsmakers across the country, Barbaro will share insights into what issues are shaping public discourse today, and how media coverage influences public understanding of policy and government.
During this moderated conversation with Susan Yackee, director of the La Follette School of Public Affairs, Barbaro will reflect on his career in journalism and discuss recent efforts to promote civil dialogue and whether finding common ground is possible in these turbulent times.
This in-person presentation is part of the La Follette School's Journalist in Residence speaker series.
Michael Barbaro created and hosts The Daily, the popular five-day-a-week podcast from The New York Times. Since its creation in 2017, The Daily has become the most popular news podcast in the world, with more than 3 million listeners. The Daily has won a DuPont-Columbia University Award for audio excellence and has been named a top podcast of the year by Time, Entertainment Weekly, The Atlantic, Esquire, Adweek, The New Yorker, and New York Magazine.
Before hosting The Daily, Barbaro was a national political correspondent for The New York Times and host of The Run-Up, a podcast about the 2016 presidential race. Previously, he covered New York's City Hall and the U.S. retail industry. Upon graduation with a bachelor’s degree in history from Yale in 2002, he joined The Washington Post as a reporter covering the biotechnology industry, eventually joining The New York Times in 2005.
Sponsors
The Public Affairs Journalist in Residence program is made possible by the Kohl Initiative, the Paul Offner Lecture Series, and UW-Madison’s Office of Strategic Communication.
