Editing Mike Barnicle (section)

==Early career==
Barnicle was born in [[Worcester, Massachusetts]], grew up in [[Fitchburg, Massachusetts]], and graduated from [[Boston University]] in 1965. Barnicle worked as a volunteer for the [[Robert F. Kennedy presidential campaign, 1968|Robert F. Kennedy]] 1968 presidential campaign in various states. After Kennedy's assassination, Barnicle attended the [[Requiem Mass]] for Kennedy at [[St. Patrick's Cathedral (Manhattan)|St. Patrick's Cathedral]] and later rode on the 21-car funeral train to [[Arlington National Cemetery]].<ref>{{cite news |last=Barnicle |first=Mike |url=https://www.thedailybeast.com/what-i-saw-on-rfks-funeral-train-50-years-ago-today |title=What I Saw on RFK's Funeral Train 50 Years Ago Today |work=[[The Daily Beast]] |date=June 5, 2018 |accessdate=July 24, 2018 }}</ref> He worked as a speechwriter on the U.S. Senate campaign of [[John V. Tunney]] and for Sen. [[Ed Muskie]], when Muskie announced his intention to run in the Democratic Party presidential primaries. Barnicle appeared in a small part in the [[Robert Redford]] film ''[[The Candidate (1972 film)|The Candidate]]''. Barnicle was asked to write a column while visiting Redford's "Sundance" home in Utah.  As the New York Times reported, the Globe's political writer, Robert L. Healy, and Jack Driscoll, the editor of The Evening Globe, recruited Mr. Barnicle to write a column. He continued to write columns for The Evening Globe, then the Boston Globe, until 1998.<ref>{{cite news |last=Barringer|first=Felicity|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1998/08/17/business/furor-over-globe-columnist-exposes-fault-lines-in-boston.html |title=Furor Over Globe Columnist Exposes Fault Lines in Boston |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=August 17, 1998 |accessdate=June 4, 2022 }}</ref>

The paper and its columnists won praise with their coverage of the political and social upheaval that roiled Boston after the city instituted a mandatory, court-ordered school desegregation plan in the mid-1970s. In his Pulitzer Prize-winning book ''[[Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families]]'' (1986), [[J. Anthony Lukas]] wrote that Barnicle gave voice to the Boston residents who the policy had angered. Lukas singled out Barnicle's column ("Busing Puts Burden on Working Class, Black and White" published in ''The Boston Globe'', October 15, 1974) and interview with Harvard psychiatrist and author Robert Coles as one of the defining moments in the coverage that helped earn the paper the 1975 [[Pulitzer Prize for Public Service]].<ref>[http://www.pulitzer.org/awards/1975/ Pulitzer Prize Website]</ref>

Over the next three decades, Barnicle became a prominent voice in New England. His columns mixed pointed criticism of government and bureaucratic failure with personal stories that exemplified people's everyday struggles to make a living and raise a family. Tapping into a rich knowledge of local and national politics, Barnicle had unique takes on the ups and downs of figures including Sen. [[Ted Kennedy]], Sen. [[John Kerry]], and longtime Congressional Speaker of the House Thomas [[Tip O'Neill]], as well as Boston mayors [[Kevin White (mayor)|Kevin White]], [[Raymond Flynn|Ray Flynn]], and [[Tom Menino]]. In subsequent years, Barnicle's coverage expanded as he reported from [[Northern Ireland]] on the conflict and resolution there to the beaches of [[Normandy]], from where he wrote about the commemorations of [[World War II]] veterans.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20130512014815/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-8282630.html Amid the graves, gratitude lives on, ''The Boston Globe'', June 7, 1994]</ref>

Barnicle has won local and national awards for his print and broadcast work. In addition to contributing to the Boston Globe's submission and awarding him the 1974 Pulitzer Prize for public service, he received recognition for his contributions. Additionally he's received awards and honors from the [[Associated Press]] (1984), [[United Press International]] (1978, 1982, 1984, 1989), National Headliners (1982), and duPont-Columbia University (1991–92), and most recently the Pete Hamill Award for Journalistic Excellence from the Glucksman Ireland House at New York University (2022).[https://www.nyu.edu/about/news-publications/news/2022/march/glucksman-ireland-house-to-celebrate-tenth-annual-gala--at-new-y.html]. He holds honorary degrees from the [[University of Massachusetts Amherst]] and [[Colby College]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.umass.edu/umassmag/archives/1997/summer_97/sum97_barnicle.html|title=Around the Pond Summer 1997|website=www.umass.edu|accessdate=January 16, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.colby.edu/news_events/commencement/history/speakers.cfm|title=Colby College, 1987 Commencement|accessdate=January 16, 2018|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20121004215901/http://www.colby.edu/news_events/commencement/history/speakers.cfm|archivedate=October 4, 2012}}</ref>