Mike Barnicle is an award-winning print and broadcast journalist, as well as a social and political commentator, who is a frequent contributor and occasional guest host on MSNBC’s popular “Morning Joe” and “Hardball with Chris Matthews.” Barnicle can also been seen regularly on NBC’s “Today Show.”
The Massachusetts native has written more than 4,000 columns collectively for the Boston Herald, New York Daily News, and The Boston Globe, where he rose to prominence with his biting, satirical, and at times, heart-wrenching columns that closely followed the triumphs, travails and ambitions of Boston’s working and middle classes. He has also written articles and commentary for Time Magazine, Newsweek.com, The Huffington Post, ESPN Magazine, Esquire, among others.
Until recently Barnicle hosted a morning drive-time talk radio program on WTKK-FM in Boston and for years has been a frequent guest on Imus in the Morning, where his “Barnicle’s View” is heard Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 6:55 a.m. and 8:55 a.m.
Since 1982, Barnicle has been a regular contributor to WCVB-TV’s nightly news magazine, “Chronicle.” His award-winning documentaries include “Armed and Dangerous,” which examined the proliferation of guns in the U.S., and “Justice on Trial,” an expose on the Massachusetts judicial system.
