12 Facts About Barry Sussman

Barry Sussman was an American editor, author, and public opinion analyst who dealt primarily with public policy issues.

Barry Sussman was city news editor at The Washington Post at the time of the Watergate break-in and supervised much of the reporting on the Watergate scandal.

Barry Sussman left after 16 months but soon returned as managing editor before joining The Washington Post in 1965.

Barry Sussman was a state-suburban editor, then DC editor, with a staff of 40 to 45 reporters.

Barry Sussman was city news editor at The Washington Post at the time of the Watergate scandal and was detached to direct the coverage that led to the Post being awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service in 1973.

Barry Sussman left the Post in 1987 to become managing editor for national news at United Press International, in charge of 800 reporters and editors across the US and 40 more in UPI's Washington bureau.

Barry Sussman left UPI after less than one year and became an independent pollster, continuing to focus on public policy issues.

Barry Sussman was a board member of the group Innovation Media Consulting.

Barry Sussman is one of the journalists profiled at Investigating Power, a website covering events in recent American history.

In September 2011, Barry Sussman was the recipient of a lifetime achievement award from Brooklyn College, his alma mater.

Barry Sussman died on June 1,2022, at his home in Rockville, Maryland, due to gastrointestinal bleeding.

Barry Sussman is the author of What Americans Really Think, published by Pantheon in 1988, based on columns he wrote while pollster and public opinion analyst at The Washington Post, and Maverick: A Life in Politics, written with and about the former US Senator and Governor of Connecticut, Lowell P Weicker Jr.