Michael Barnicle (born October 15, 1943 in Worcester, Massachusetts[1]) is an American newspaper writer and has been a newspaper columnist for more than 30 years for The Boston Globe (1974–1998), the New York Daily News (1999–2005) and the Boston Herald (2004–present). He has also written for Esquire, George, ESPN Magazine, and most recently Newsweek.com and The Huffington Post.
Barnicle also provides commentary on MSNBC, where he has been under contract for the last 10 years. He is a regular commentator and occasional guest host on Morning Joe and Hardball with Chris Matthews, and frequently is seen on NBC's Today Show with news/feature segments. He has been a regular contributor to the country's longest-running, award-winning local television news magazine, "Chronicle" on WCVB-TV, starting in 1986. Barnicle has also appeared on PBS's NewsHour, CBS's 60 Minutes, ESPN and HBO sports programming.
He has won local and national awards for both his print and broadcast work over the last three decades, including from the Associated Press, United Press International, National Headliners and duPont-Columbia University. He holds honorary degrees from the University of Massachusetts and Colby College.
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Early career
Barnicle graduated from Boston University in 1965, and began working for Robert F. Kennedy. He was a speechwriter for John Tunney, Edmund Muskie, and Sargent Shriver. Barnicle appeared in the Robert Redford film, The Candidate.
Boston Globe Controversy
In 1998 Barnicle resigned from the Globe amid allegations of plagiarism about two of those columns. The first column, more than 80 lines of humorous observations dated August 2, 1998, contained observations from the 1997 book Brain Droppings by George Carlin.[2] After Barnicle said he had never read the book, the editor of the Globe issued a temporary suspension. However, WCVB-TV subsequently aired a video clip of Barnicle recommending the book to viewers, the editor called for his resignation; this was rescinded under fire from readers and the suspension period doubled instead. [3]
The second column dated from October 8, 1995. The column recounted the story of two sets of parents with cancer-stricken children. When one of the boys, a black child, died, the parents of the other boy, a white child who had begun to recover, sent the dead child's parents a check for $10,000 USD. When the Globe could not locate the people in the story, who had not been publicly identified, Barnicle insisted nonetheless that the story was true. He said he did not obtain the story from the parents, but from a nurse, whom he declined to identify. Walter V. Robinson, a Pulitzer Prize-winning editor then in charge of the Globe's "Spotlight" investigative team, failed to match a recorded death with the date of death claimed for the child.[3]
1998–present
Soon afterward, the New York Daily News and the Boston Herald recruited Barnicle to write for them.[4] Barnicle told reporters that he had nothing but “fond feelings for 25 years at the Globe."[4] Globe sports columnist Dan Shaughnessy served as a regular commentator and guest host on Barnicle’s daily radio program on WTKK.[5] Barnicle is currently on the radio three times a week with Barnicle's View, on Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 6:55am and 8:55am [1].
As of 2009[update], Barnicle has also become a regular guest on the MSNBC early morning program Morning Joe as a commentator. He also is a frequent guest host for Chris Matthews on Hardball.
See also
Notes and references
- ^ City of Worcester Birth Record Search. Accessed 24 July 2008.
- ^ Former Boston Globe Columnist Is Returning, but to a Rival The New York Times. Accessed 12 July 2007.
- ^ a b Barnicle resigns from Globe The Boston Globe. Accessed December 18, 2009.
- ^ a b Barnicle signs on as Herald columnist The Boston Globe. Accessed 12 July 2007.
- ^ Mike Barnicle's Bio 96.9 FM Talk. Accessed 13 September 2006.
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