Jason Berry
{{short description|American historian}}
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Jason Berry (born 1949){{cite web |last1=Hunter |first1=Beryl |last2=Thomson |first2=Laura |title=Berry, Jason (1949-) |url=http://amistadresearchcenter.tulane.edu/archon/?p=creators/creator&id=131 |website=Amistad Research Center |access-date=12 September 2021}} is an American investigative reporter, author and film director based in New Orleans, Louisiana. He is known for pioneering investigative reporting on sexual abuse in the priesthood of the Catholic Church.{{Cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/despite-investigating-catholic-scandals-author-jason-berry-keeps-the-faith/2011/09/20/gIQA4tkYjK_story.html|title=Despite investigating Catholic scandals, author Jason Berry keeps the faith|last=Roig-Franzia o|first=Manuel|date=September 20, 2011|newspaper=The Washington Post|language=en|access-date=2019-01-10}}
Life
He attended Jesuit High School in New Orleans, graduating in 1966.
Berry is a graduate of Georgetown University.{{Cite web|url=https://pulitzercenter.org/people/jason-berry|title=Jason Berry|website=Pulitzer Center|language=en|access-date=2019-01-06}}
His book Lead Us Not into Temptation: Catholic Priests and the Sexual Abuse of Children (1992) was the first major book on this issue. His 2004 book Vows of Silence deals with the sexual abuse of Marcial Maciel, the founder of the Legion of Christ, and the cover-up of that abuse. The author also adapted Vows of Silence into a film.{{Cite web |url=http://www.vowsofsilencefilm.com/ |title=Vowsofsilencefilm.com |access-date=April 18, 2010 |archive-date=October 7, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181007041910/http://www.vowsofsilencefilm.com/ |url-status=dead }} Berry has been frequently interviewed in national media in the United States, has worked as a consultant for ABC News, and contributed to the National Public Radio and is a speaker on sexual abuse issues and popular culture.[http://www.jasonberryauthor.com/ Jasonberryauthor.com]
Berry has also written books and news articles on music, particularly jazz, and co-wrote Up from the Cradle of Jazz: New Orleans Music Since World War II with Jonathan Foose and Tad Jones.{{cite web |last1=Roberts |first1=Tom |title=The jazz writer: Jason Berry's quest to understand the place where he's from |url=https://www.ncronline.org/news/people/jazz-writer-jason-berrys-quest-understand-place-where-hes |website=National Catholic Reporter |access-date=10 September 2021 |date=20 November 2019}}{{cite web|url=http://www.nola.com/books/index.ssf/2009/09/post_9.html|title=Jason Berry expands on New Orleans music history primer in a reissue of Up from the Cradle of Jazz|author=Maria C. Montoya|work=The Times-Picayune|date=September 2, 2009|accessdate=November 12, 2017|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20170429203121/http://www.nola.com/books/index.ssf/2009/09/post_9.html|archivedate=April 29, 2017|url-status=dead}}
Awards
Berry won his first Catholic Press Association Award in 1986 for his original coverage in the National Catholic Reporter of the clergy sexual-abuse scandals in Louisiana, notably including the priest Gilbert Gauthe. He was awarded his second in 1993 for the publication of Lead Us Not into Temptation: Catholic Priests and the Sexual Abuse of Children. He was a recipient of the Alicia Patterson Journalism Fellowship for his reportage of David Duke. He and his wife live in New Orleans.Biographical information appears on book jacket of Lead Us Not into Temptation: Catholic Priests and the Sexual Abuse of Children first published by Doubleday in 1992, {{ISBN|978-0-385-42436-3}}
Berry won an Alicia Patterson Journalism Fellowship in 1992, covering Louisiana's political demagogues.{{citation needed|date=September 2021}}
Books
- Up from the Cradle of Jazz: New Orleans Music Since World War II Athens: The University of Georgia Press, 1986. {{ISBN|9780820308548}}, {{OCLC|906469394}}
- Lead Us Not Into Temptation: Catholic Priests and the Sexual Abuse of Children (1992) Re-issued, March 27, 2000 by University of Illinois Press. {{ISBN|978-0-252-06812-6}}
- The Spirit of Black Hawk: A Mystery of Africans and Indians (1995)
- Vows of Silence New York; London: Free Press, 2004. {{ISBN|9780743244411}}, {{OCLC|53462027}}
- Last of the Red Hot Poppas Seattle: Chin Music Press, 2006. {{ISBN|9780974199528}}, {{OCLC|71836647}}
- City of a Million Dreams : A History of New Orleans at Year 300, Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2018. {{ISBN|9781469647142}}, {{OCLC|1029441309}}
Filmography
- Vows of Silence, director
- Up from the Cradle of Jazz, director
References
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External links
- {{official website|http://www.jasonberryauthor.com/}}
- {{IMDb name|3246304}}
- {{C-SPAN|92188}}
- {{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/24/opinion/catholic-church-abuse-jason-berry-first-report.html|title=He Blew the Whistle on the Catholic Church in 1985. Why Didn't We Listen?|website=The New York Times|date=August 24, 2021}}
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Category:American investigative journalists
Category:Media coverage of Catholic Church sexual abuse scandals
Category:21st-century American historians
Category:21st-century American male writers
Category:Historians of Mississippi
Category:Georgetown University alumni
Category:Jesuit High School (New Orleans) alumni