Barbara Bradley Hagerty is an American journalist and author. She has been a reporter for
NPR
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since 1995.
Hagerty graduated from
Williams College
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with a degree in economics and afterwards was employed by ''
The Christian Science Monitor
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''. Hagerty traveled in Asia for three years. In 1994, she attended
Yale Law School
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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
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. She won the
Peabody Award
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and
Overseas Press Club Award
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with her colleagues for NPR's reporting of the
September 11 attacks
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.
In 2003, Hagerty began covering religion for NPR. Hagerty's religious reporting has won her two
Gracie Awards
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, a National Headliner Award, and a Religion Newswriters Award.
In 2009, Hagerty's book ''Fingerprints of God'' was published. In 2016, she published ''Life Reimagined''. She lives in
Washington, D.C.
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, and is a contributing writer for ''
The Atlantic
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It was founded in 1857 in Boston, ...
''.
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Stories by Barbara Bradley Hagerty npr.org
Barbara Bradley Hagerty theatlantic.com
21st-century American non-fiction writers
American women radio journalists
American women writers
The Atlantic (magazine) people
NPR personalities
People from Washington, D.C.
Religion journalists
Williams College alumni
Yale Law School alumni
Living people
Peabody Award winners
Year of birth missing (living people)
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