PERSON: Michael Barbaro


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Michael Christopher Barbaro (born October 12, 1979) is an American journalist and co-host of The New York Times news podcast The Daily, one of the most popular podcasts in the United States.

Barbaro grew up in North Haven, Connecticut. His mother, Jean, worked as a library media specialist at Anna Reynolds Elementary School in Newington, Connecticut. His father, Frank, was a New Haven, Connecticut city firefighter. His mother is Jewish and Barbaro identifies as Jewish. Barbaro’s sister, Tracy Barbaro, works at Harvard University as a research lab coordinator. In middle school, he and his sister delivered the New Haven Register every weekday at 6 am. Both attended Hamden Hall Country Day School in Hamden, Connecticut.

In high school, Barbaro wrote for Hamden Hall’s official newspaper, The Advent. Barbaro, with classmate and future New York Times colleague Ross Douthat, also co-founded and ran the school’s underground newspaper, La Verité. As a teenager, he aspired to be the Times’ Jerusalem Bureau Chief.

He graduated from Yale University in 2002 with a degree in history. While at Yale, he reported for the Yale Daily News and later became its editor-in-chief, overseeing a staff of nearly 100 student writers.

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