Barry Schweid (July 30, 1932 – December 10, 2015) was an American journalist. As a correspondent for the

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(AP), he reported on politics and international diplomacy from the 1950s until his retirement in 2012. Schweid was born in Manhattan, New York City. He attended

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(class of 1949),

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(class of 1953), where he worked on the ''

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'', and the

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(1954). After Columbia, he served in the U.S. Army as a public relations specialist before joining the Associated Press. Among many other stories, Schweid covered the

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efforts of

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. Schweid retired in 2012. He died on December 10, 2015, from "complications of a degenerative neurological condition." After his death, U.S. Secretary of State

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released a statement calling Schweid "an Associated Press legend and the longtime dean of the State Department press corps".

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