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Barbara Bradley Hagerty to Participate in RCComunicator's 2010 Congress

National Public Radio, Correspondent, Religion, National Desk

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> Panelist for Changing Society, Changing Media

Barbara Bradley Hagerty has been the religion correspondent for National Public Radio (NPR) since January 2003. She reports on the intersection of faith and politics, law, science, and culture. Before that, she was NPR?s Justice Department correspondent and covered legal affairs and crime. Her stories ranged from the impeachment hearings of President Clinton to the Florida election to the DNA revolution.

Barbara was the lead correspondent covering the investigation into the September 11 attacks. Her reporting was part of NPR?s coverage that earned the network the 2001 George Foster Peabody and Overseas Press Club awards. She has appeared on the PBS programs Washington Week in Review and The Lehrer News Hour. In her capacity as religion correspondent, Barbara received the 2004 Religion Newswriters Association award for radio reporting. Her first book, Fingerprints of God: The Search for the Science of Spirituality, was published in May 2009.

Barbara came to NPR in 1995, after attending Yale Law School on a one-year Knight Fellowship. Before that, she worked at The Christian Science Monitor for 11 years: as a newspaper reporter in Washington, as the Asia correspondent for World Monitor (the Monitor?s nightly television program on the Discovery Cable Channel), and finally as senior Washington correspondent for Monitor Radio.

Bradley was graduated magna cum laude from Williams College in 1981 with a degree in economics.

? With honesty, discernment, humor, grace ? and an enormous amount of reporting ? Barbara Bradley Hagerty takes on one of the fiercest controversies of the last 500 years: Can we measure faith? ?

~ E. J. Dionne Jr., author of Souled Out and syndicated columnist, in a review of Fingerprints of God