Michael Barbaro Biography
Michael Barbaro is an American journalist and the host of The New York Times news podcast, The Daily, which is one of the most popular in the country.
How old is Michael Barbaro? – Age
He is 44 years old as of October 12, 2023. He was born in 1979 in New Haven, Connecticut, United States.
Michael Barbaro Family – Education
Jean, his mother, was a librarian at Anna Reynolds Elementary School in Newington, Connecticut. Frank, his father, was a municipal firefighter in New Haven, Connecticut. Barbaro identifies as Jewish since his mother is Jewish. Tracy Barbaro, Barbaro’s sister, works as a research lab coordinator at Harvard University. He and his sister delivered the New Haven Register every every day at 6 a.m. while they were in middle school. In Hamden, Connecticut, they both attended Hamden Hall Country Day School.
Is Michael Barbaro married? – How many children does Michael Barbaro have?
Barbaro married Timothy Levin, a fellow Yale graduate, in October 2014. Bespoke Education, a teaching and test prep firm, was created by Levin, who is eight years Barbaro’s senior. It was announced in July 2018 that Barbaro and Levin had divorced. In a June 2019 interview with the Evening Standard, Barbaro said it “wasn’t a coincidence” that he and his husband split up shortly after the publication of The Daily. Barbaro and Times colleague Lisa Tobin got engaged in Brooklyn in 2019, and they will have a kid called Tobin Barbaro in May 2021. Mira Ruth Barbaro, Barbaro’s second daughter, was born during his paternity leave in 2021.
His connection with conservative Times columnist Ross Douthat has gotten a lot of press, as Barbaro muses on Douthat’s conservative views on same-sex marriage and his personal path to end his own same-sex marriage.
Michael Barbaro Net Worth
He has an estimated net worth of $5 million.
Michael Barbaro Podcast
The New York Times began The Run-Up, a twice-weekly political podcast presented by Barbaro, in August 2016. The podcast aired until the November 2016 presidential election.
In February 2017, Barbaro began anchoring The Daily, the Times’ first five-day-a-week podcast. The Daily had a daily audience of one million listeners in its first year. The podcast, which features 30-minute episodes, has had remarkable popularity and was the number one podcast in the United States for every month of 2019. The Daily was the most popular U.S. news podcast for both Spotify and Apple users in 2020, and the country’s second most popular podcast. Although the Times has other podcasts, The Daily accounted for the majority of its audio earnings in mid-2019.
During the COVID-19 epidemic, The Daily had even more success. According to moment, “Barbaro and his team at the Times have established themselves as the most trusted voices in podcasting at a time when we as a country are desperate for information.” Meredith Kopit Levien, the newspaper’s president and CEO, stated in August 2020 that The Daily had more than 3.5 million subscribers every day, a “vastly larger” viewership than both the Times’ daily and Sunday papers. Barbaro apologized in January 2021 after privately persuading several writers to retract criticism of The New York Times podcast, Caliphate.
Michael Barbaro The Daily Launched
Barbaro is recognized for his unusual voice, which has been described as “dulcet,” as well as his “staccato” talking style. Many people have compared his success with The Daily to Ira Glass, the host and creator of This American Life. Barbaro’s grandpa used to chastise him for saying “um” or “you know,” thus he often stops before speaking to avoid using filler words.
Barbaro has gotten extensive media notice since the publication of The Daily. He has made sold-out public events around the country, and he has been interviewed by a variety of media sites regarding The Daily, journalism, and politics. He has been on Late Night with Seth Meyers, CBS This Morning, and PBS NewsHour, among others. He has also been on South by Southwest (SXSW), Vox’s Recode Decode podcast, and NPR’s talk show 1A.
Six months after The Daily debuted, The New Yorker published an article titled “An Appreciation of Michael Barbaro and The Daily.” A New York Magazine story on him in January 2020 dubbed him “the voice of a generation.” According to a November 2021 Vanity Fair piece, The Daily “vault[ed] Barbaro from a respected reporter to a full-fledged media celebrity.”