Barry Yeoman
Adjunct Lecturer, Journalism
Areas of Interest
- Long-form magazine journalism
- Documentary audio
Courses Taught at Wake Forest
- JOU 340/WRI 344: Magazine journalism
- JOU 375: Mastering the Interview
Selected Recent Publications
- Families in states with bans on trans care finding hope across state lines. Harvard Public Health. 2024
- How Blue-Collar Candidates Could Change Politics. The Assembly. 2024.
- The Great Biogas Boondoggle. Sierra and Food & Environment Reporting Network. 2024
- Uniting the United Methodist Church. The Assembly. 2024
- “Judgment Day.” The Assembly. 2023.
- “Schoolyard Brawl.” The Assembly. 2023.
- “Two of a Kind.” National Wildlife. 2023.
- “Turning the Tides.” Harvard Public Health and Food & Environment Reporting Network. 2023.
- “Changing a River’s Course.” The Assembly. 2022.
- “Was This Professor Fired for Having Tourette Syndrome?” The Nation. 2022.
- “Stress Test.” National Wildlife. 2022.
- “Schism in the Body.” The Assembly. 2022.
- “‘That’s Fake News!’” Saturday Evening Post. 2022.
- “The Youngest Operative.” Border Belt Independent. 2022.
- “Between Place and Party.” The Assembly. 2022.
- “Birds of a Feather.” Audubon. 2022.
- “The Contested Swamps of Robeson County.” The Assembly. 2021.
- “The New Democratic Playbook.” The Assembly. 2021.
- “Battle Hymns of the Old South.” The Baffler. 2021
- “Room to Roam?” National Wildlife. 2021.
- “The Fierce Urgency of Now.” Carolina Alumni Review. 2021.
- “Peaceful March to the Polls is Met With Pepper Spray.” The Washington Post. 2020.
- “Our Stutter.” The Nation. 2020
- “Is Any Protest a Threat to Public Safety?” The Washington Post. 2020.
- “Using Generations of Resilience to Handle the Pandemic.” Southerly. 2020.
- “As Sea Level Rises, a Louisiana Tribe Fights to Stay Put.” onEarth. 2020.
- “A Woman Not of Her Time.” Carolina Alumni Review. 2020.
- “Raising a Stink.” The Nation and Food & Environment Reporting Network. 2019.
- “Stammer Time.” The Baffler. 2019.
- “The Vanishing Act.” The Guardian and Food & Environment Reporting Network. 2019.
- “A Plague of Plastics.” National Wildlife. 2019.
- “New sheriffs in town as African Americans win top law enforcement posts in N.C.” The Washington Post. 2019.
- “ICE Puts Immigrants Into a Cruel Catch-22.” The Nation. 2018.
- “Out of the Paper Cage.” Charlotte magazine. 2018.
- “The North Carolina GOP Is Trying Every Trick To Keep A Supreme Court Seat.” Talking Points Memo. 2018.
- “Is The World Bank Above the Law?” The Nation. 2018.
- “The Soul of Community.” Craftsmanship Quarterly. 2018.
- “The Hidden Resilience of Food Deserts.” Sapiens. 2018.
- “A Republican Voice of Dissent.” The Nation. 2018.
Selected Older Publications
- “Reclaiming Native Ground” The Lens and Food & Environment Reporting Network. 2017.
- “History Matters.” The Washington Post. 2016.
- “The Gulf War.” Food & Environment Reporting Network. 2016.
- “Earthquake Nation.” Popular Science. 2016.
- “The Inside Story of Shell’s Arctic Assault.” Audubon. 2016
- “The Uncounted.” HuffPost and International Consortium of Investigative Journalists. 2015.
- “Can Moral Mondays Produce Victorious Tuesdays?” The American Prospect. 2015.
- “Life on the Mississippi, Now.” onEarth. 2014.
- “Why the Passenger Pigeon Went Extinct.” Audubon. 2014.
- “The Gutbucket King.” The New New South. 2013.
- “The Shale Rebellion.” The American Prospect. 2013.
- “The Death and Life of Detroit.” The American Prospect. 2012.
- “Moon Bears in Distress, All For the Love of Bile.” onEarth. 2011
Additional Resources
- Barry Yeoman’s web site.
- Barry Yeoman’s newsletter.
- Barry Yeoman’s favorite longform journalism, 2017-2023.
Photo by Efthimios Kalos.