Kim Barker

Kim Barker is a journalist who authored The Taliban Shuffle: Strange Days in Afghanistan and Pakistan about her experiences covering the war in Afghanistan. The book was adapted into the 2016 film Whiskey Tango Foxtrot and Barker was portrayed by Tina Fey.

This article is about the reporter. For the character from the British soap opera Emmerdale, see Kim Tate.

Barker was the South Asia bureau chief for the Chicago Tribune.[1] She was based out of New Delhi and Islamabad.[2] She also covered the tsunami in Asia and an earthquake in Kashmir.[3]

After writing the book she got a job with ProPublica covering campaign finance.[4]

In the wake of Lara Logan's account of sexual assault, Barker wrote about harassment issues she faced being a female correspondent.[5]

She is currently a reporter for The New York Times.[6] As of February 2023 she has a podcast about a cold case from her hometown, Laramie, WY. [7]

References
  1. "Whiskey Tango Foxtrot: why Tina Fey turned my life as a war reporter into a comedy | Women | The Guardian". amp.theguardian.com.
  2. Arikoglu, Lale; Carey, Meredith. "Journalist Kim Barker on Work Trips to War Zones". Condé Nast Traveler.
  3. Edwards, Shanee (March 8, 2017). "21 Things About Kim Barker, the Woman Behind 'Whiskey Tango Foxtrot'".
  4. https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2016/03/kim-barker-whiskey-tango-foxtrot-interview/a
  5. Barker, Kim. "Female Foreign Correspondents' Code of Silence, Finally Broken". ProPublica.
  6. "Kim Barker".
  7. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/16/podcasts/serial-laramie-cold-case.html. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)


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