Do you see consistent themes between these stories? Looking through your recent articles, you can see a few subjects that get repeated attention: minor league baseball, crime and law enforcement, remembering 9/11, Irish and Irish American life, moments of medical crisis and the local news. I also spent a year as a senior editor and writer for The Times’s documentary unit. I would call my beat “open to anything.” It’s been a mishmash of narrative projects, general essays, photo essays, deadline reporting and writing, and the occasional riff in sports and the arts. How would you describe the beat you’ve been on since This Land ended? Here he talks about themes explored in his work, his approach to storytelling and an average workday during the pandemic. Barry’s own inner life? “I’d say that transportation is far more interesting than my inner life,” he wrote in an email exchange. His varied subjects don’t follow a traditional journalistic beat like transportation. More recently, he has written about the inner lives of a cabaret singer who died in the early days of the pandemic, a local newspaper’s last reporter, a former deputy police chief avoiding certain memories and a small-town mayor heartbroken by a baseball team that moved away. Before coming to The Times, he was a reporter at The Providence Journal in Rhode Island, where he shared a Pulitzer Prize for investigating the state’s court system. He has written for the Metro, Sports and National desks his longest running beat here was This Land, an 11-year search for stories across America. Times Insider explains who we are and what we do, and delivers behind-the-scenes insights into how our journalism comes together.ĭan Barry has worked as a reporter at The New York Times since 1995.

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