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Joshuah Bearman is an American journalist. He has written for Rolling Stone , Harper's , Wired , The New York Times Magazine , The Believer , and McSweeney's, and contributes to This American Life. Bearman was a contributing producer on the documentary, The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters . Bearman is an advisory board member of 826LA, a non-profit tutoring organization in Los Angeles. He lives in Los Angeles, California. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7]
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Several of Bearman's articles have been optioned for film and television adaptation. His 2007 Wired article about a CIA mission during the Iran Hostage Crisis was adapted as the 2012 film Argo, with George Clooney producing and Ben Affleck directing and starring. [8] The screenplay, based on Bearman's article, won the Writer's Guild award for Best Adapted Screenplay, [9] and the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. The film won the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Drama at the Golden Globes, the BAFTA Award for Best Film, and Best Picture at the Academy Awards.
Bearman was nominated for a National Magazine Award in 2014 [10] for his article, "Coronado High, the Story of America's First Drug Empire." [11] It was co-published in GQ and Atavist . His writing has appeared in the Best American Non-Required Reading and Best American Technology Writing anthologies.
Bearman is a former staff writer and editor for the LA Weekly. He was one half of Team USA in Walleyball, a short film by Brent Hoff about a pick-up game of volleyball at the US-Mexico border. He was the editor-in-chief of Yeti Researcher, a journal in the field of cryptic hominid investigation, published by McSweeney's. He produced and directed McSweeney's Presents, a live comedy series, as a fundraiser for 826LA, a tutoring organization for children. [12]
In 2014, Bearman co-founded Epic, a digital publication of narrative non-fiction and film and television production company. [13]
