Kim Barker

{{Short description|American journalist and author}}

{{about|the reporter|the character from the British soap opera Emmerdale|Kim Tate}}

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• Chicago Tribune
• ProPublica
• New York Times

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Kim Barker is a journalist who authored The Taliban Shuffle: Strange Days in Afghanistan and Pakistan about her experiences covering the war in Afghanistan. The book was adapted into the 2016 film Whiskey Tango Foxtrot and Barker was portrayed by Tina Fey.

Barker was the South Asia bureau chief for the Chicago Tribune.{{Cite news |last=Ko |first=Claudine |date=2016-03-28 |title=Whiskey Tango Foxtrot: why Tina Fey turned my life as a war reporter into a comedy |language=en-GB |work=The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2016/mar/28/whiskey-tango-foxtrot-tina-fey-kim-barker-taliban-shuffle-eat-pray-love |access-date=2023-06-30 |issn=0261-3077}} She was based out of New Delhi and Islamabad.{{Cite web |last1=Arikoglu |first1=Lale |last2=Carey |first2=Meredith |date=2018-04-23 |title=Journalist Kim Barker on Work Trips to War Zones |url=https://www.cntraveler.com/story/women-who-travel-podcast-journalist-kim-barker-on-life-as-a-foreign-correspondent |access-date=2023-06-29 |website=Condé Nast Traveler}} She also covered the tsunami in Asia and an earthquake in Kashmir.{{Cite web|url=https://www.sheknows.com/entertainment/slideshow/5253/things-about-kim-barker-the-woman-behind-whiskey-tango-foxtrot/|title=21 Things About Kim Barker, the Woman Behind 'Whiskey Tango Foxtrot'|first=Shanee|last=Edwards|date=March 8, 2017}}

After writing the book she got a job with ProPublica covering campaign finance.{{Cite magazine |last=Schmidt |first=Sarah |date=2016-03-04 |title=Journalist Kim Barker on What It's Like For Your Life to Become a Tina Fey Movie |url=https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2016/03/kim-barker-whiskey-tango-foxtrot-interview |access-date=2023-06-30 |magazine=Vanity Fair |language=en-US}}

In the wake of Lara Logan's account of sexual assault, Barker wrote about harassment issues she faced being a female correspondent.{{Cite web|url=https://www.propublica.org/article/breaking-the-code-of-silence|title=Female Foreign Correspondents' Code of Silence, Finally Broken|first=Kim|last=Barker|website=ProPublica|date=19 February 2011 }}

She is currently a reporter for The New York Times.{{Cite web |title=Kim Barker |url=https://www.nytimes.com/by/kim-barker |access-date=2023-06-29 |website=New York Times}} In 2023 she produced a podcast called The Coldest Case in Laramie about a cold case from her hometown of Laramie, Wyoming.{{Cite web |title=The Coldest Case in Laramie |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/16/podcasts/serial-laramie-cold-case.html |access-date=2023-06-15 |website=New York Times}}