Barry Petersen is a

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News Correspondent. Interview conducted by Gary Barg of caregiver.com He has reported on wars, natural disasters, Paris fashions, the fading popularity of Welsh choirs, and the return of American

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, China. He has worked for

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for more than three decades.

Biography

After attending high school in

Sidney, Montana Sidney is a city in and the county seat of Richland County, Montana, United States, less than west of the North Dakota border. The population was 6,346 at the 2020 census. The city lies along the Yellowstone River and is in proximity to the ...

, he studied at

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’s

Medill School of Journalism The Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing Communications is a constituent school of Northwestern University that offers both undergraduate and graduate programs. It frequently ranks as the top school of journalism in the Unite ...

. Petersen wrote about his wife's diagnosis with early onset of

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in 2005, in a work entitled "Jan's Story", which was published in June 2010. Jan was also a CBS News journalist, reporting from both Japan and the former Soviet Union for CBS News Radio,

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, and the CBS Weekend News.

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Barry Petersen
{{DEFAULTSORT:Petersen, Barry Living people American television reporters and correspondents Medill School of Journalism alumni People from Sidney, Montana Journalists from Montana CBS News people Year of birth missing (living people)