Barbara Bradley Hagerty

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Barbara Bradley Hagerty is an American journalist and author. She has been a reporter for NPR since 1995.

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Hagerty graduated from Williams College with a degree in economics and afterwards was employed by The Christian Science Monitor . Hagerty traveled in Asia for three years. In 1994, she attended Yale Law School on a one-year Knight Fellowship, where she earned a master in legal studies degree. She began working for NPR in 1995, where she covered the United States Department of Justice. She won the Peabody Award and Overseas Press Club Award with her colleagues for NPR's reporting of the September 11 attacks. [1]

In 2003, Hagerty began covering religion for NPR. Hagerty's religious reporting has won her two Gracie Awards, a National Headliner Award, and a Religion Newswriters Award.

In 2009, Hagerty's book Fingerprints of God was published. [2] In 2016, she published Life Reimagined. [3] She lives in Washington, D.C., and is a contributing writer for The Atlantic .

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References

  1. "Hagerty, Barbara Bradley | School of Media & Public Affairs | Columbian College of Arts & Sciences | The George Washington University". School of Media & Public Affairs | Columbian College of Arts & Sciences. Retrieved 2023-04-01.
  2. Hagerty, Barbara Bradley (2010-05-04). Fingerprints of God: What Science Is Learning About the Brain and Spiritual Experience. National Geographic Books. ISBN   978-1-59448-462-9.
  3. Hagerty, Barbara Bradley (2016-03-15). Life Reimagined: The Science, Art, and Opportunity of Midlife. Penguin. ISBN   978-1-101-62297-1.