mike barnicle

mike barnicle

Michael Barnicle (born October 13, 1943 in Worcester, Massachusetts[1]) is an American newspaper writer and has been a newspaper columnist for more than 30 years for The Boston Globe (1974–1998), the New York Daily News (1999–2005) and the Boston Herald (2004–present). He has also written for Esquire, George, ESPN Magazine, and most recently Newsweek.com and The Huffington Post.

Barnicle also provides commentary on MSNBC and is guest host of Morning Joe, where he has been under contract for the last 10 years, and frequently is seen on NBC's Today Show with news/feature segments. He has been a regular contributor to the country's longest-running, award-winning local television news magazine, "Chronicle" on WCVB-TV. Barnicle has also appeared on PBS's NewsHour, CBS's 60 Minutes, ESPN and HBO sports programming.

He has won local and national awards for both his print and broadcast work over the last three decades, including from the Associated Press, United Press International, National Headliners and duPont-Columbia University. He holds honorary degrees from the University of Massachusetts and Colby College.

A complete review of all of Barnicle's thousands of Globe columns revealed an alleged fabrication in a column from three years earlier, dated October 8, 1995. The column recounted the story of two sets of parents with cancer-stricken children. When one of the boys, a black child, died, the parents of the other boy, a white child who had begun to recover, sent the dead child's parents a check for $10,000 USD. When the Globe could not locate the people in the story, who had not been publicly identified, Barnicle insisted that the story was true. He said he did not obtain the story from the parents, but from a nurse.