1. Michael Barnicle was born on October 13,1943 and is an American journalist and commentator who has worked in print, radio, and television.
26 Facts About Mike Barnicle
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Mike Barnicle is a senior contributor and the veteran columnist on MSNBC's Morning Joe.
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Mike Barnicle was a regular contributor to the local Boston television news magazine, Chronicle on WCVB-TV, since 1986.
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Mike Barnicle has appeared on PBS's Charlie Rose, the PBS NewsHour, CBS's 60 Minutes, MSNBC's Hardball with Chris Matthews, ESPN, and HBO sports programming.
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Mike Barnicle has written articles and commentary for Time magazine, Newsweek, The Huffington Post, The Daily Beast, ESPN Magazine, and Esquire, among others.
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Mike Barnicle was born in Worcester, Massachusetts, grew up in Fitchburg, Massachusetts, and graduated from Boston University in 1965.
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Mike Barnicle worked as a speechwriter on the US Senate campaign of John V Tunney and for Sen.
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Mike Barnicle appeared in a small part in the Robert Redford film The Candidate.
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Mike Barnicle was asked to write a column while visiting Redford's "Sundance" home in Utah.
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Mike Barnicle continued to write columns for The Evening Globe, then the Boston Globe, until 1998.
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In subsequent years, Mike Barnicle's coverage expanded as he reported from Northern Ireland on the conflict and resolution there to the beaches of Normandy, from where he wrote about the commemorations of World War II veterans.
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Mike Barnicle has won local and national awards for his print and broadcast work.
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Mike Barnicle holds honorary degrees from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and Colby College.
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In 1998, Mike Barnicle resigned from The Boston Globe due to controversy over two columns, written three years apart.
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Mike Barnicle was then asked to resign from the paper, though he initially refused to do so.
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Mike Barnicle said that after one of the children died, the parents of the other child, who had begun to recover, sent the dead child's parents a check for $10,000.
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Mrs Patricia Shairs later contacted The Boston Globe to indicate that the story Mike Barnicle wrote was about her family, although she said some of the facts were incorrect.
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Mike Barnicle's resignation spurred reanalysis of his reporting on the 1989 murder of Carol Stuart and "most of the reporting proved solid," according to The New York Times.
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Six months after he resigned from the Globe, the New York Daily News recruited Mike Barnicle to write for them, and later the Boston Herald.
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Mike Barnicle hosted a radio show three times a week called Mike Barnicle's View.
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Mike Barnicle has since become a staple on MSNBC, including on Morning Joe as well as on specials on breaking news topics and presidential elections.
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Mike Barnicle interviewed all of the candidates in the 2016 presidential race.
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Mike Barnicle interviewed the 2020 presidential candidates through his work on Morning Joe.
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Mike Barnicle has received many honors for his work, including the Pete Hamill Award for Journalistic Excellence from the Glucksman Ireland House at New York University.
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Mike Barnicle mourned the "disappearance of local newspapers", suggesting that even though most states have at least one or two major metro papers, large swaths of the nation are without a reliable source of local news, and voiced his concern about the treasure trove of talent the industry has lost in recent years and all the institutional and community knowledge that left with them.
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Mike Barnicle is married to the former vice chair of Bank of America, Anne Finucane; the couple have adult children and live in Lincoln, Massachusetts.