Neil Barsky

Founder and Chairman of the Marshall Project
March 28, 2017 - 12:00pm
Health and Media in the Era of Mass Incarceration
Jane Ellen Hope Building, H103 See map
315 Cedar St.
March 28, 2017 - 4:00pm

The Role of Media in the Era of Mass Incarceration
Yale Law School, room 122
127 Wall St.

Co-sponsored by the Transitions Clinic at the Yale School of Medicine, the Yale Law School Liman Public Interest Program and the Yale Undergraduate Prison Project

 

About the Speaker

Neil Barsky is the founder and chairman of the Marshall Project, a Pulitzer prize winning news outlet, intended to shed light on the United States criminal justice system. He has been a newspaper reporter (The Wall Street Journal, New York Daily News), equity research analyst (Morgan Stanley), hedge fund manager (Midtown Capital, Alson Capital) and documentary film director (“Koch”). Barsky is the chairman of the Columbia Journalism Review board of advisers and sits on the board of trustees of Oberlin College. Barsky is a graduate of Oberlin College and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. He reported extensively on the business career of Donald Trump, and was awarded the 1991 Loeb Award for  “coverage of the collapse of Donald Trump’s financial empire.”  In his 1997 book, Trump: The Art of the Comeback, Trump wrote “Of all the writers who have written about me, probably none has been more vicious than Neil Barsky of the Wall Street Journal.”