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Michael Barnicle (born October 13, 1943) is an American journalist and commentator who has worked in print, radio, and television. He is a senior contributor and the veteran columnist on MSNBC’s Morning Joe. He is also seen on NBC’s Today Show with news/feature segments. He was a regular contributor to the local Boston television news magazine, Chronicle on WCVB-TV, since 1986. Barnicle has also appeared on PBS’s Charlie Rose, the PBS NewsHour, CBS’s 60 Minutes, MSNBC’s Hardball with Chris Matthews, ESPN, and HBO sports programming.
Several of Barnicle’s columns are featured in the anthologies published by Abrams Books: Deadline Artists: America’s Greatest Newspaper Columns and Deadline Artists—Scandals, Tragedies and Triumphs: More of America’s Greatest Newspaper Columns with the description: “Barnicle is to Boston what Royko was to Chicago and Breslin is to New York—an authentic voice who comes to symbolize a great city. Almost a generation younger than Breslin & Co., Barnicle also serves as the keeper of the flame of the reported column.” Barnicle is also interviewed in the HBO documentary Breslin and Hamill: Deadline Artists as well as many documentaries on baseball, including…
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