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Barry Sussman was born on 10 July, 1934 in Brooklyn, New York, U.S., is an American editor, author, and public opinion analyst (1934–2022). Discover Barry Sussman's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 87 years old?

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Occupation Editor, author, opinion analyst
Age 87 years old
Zodiac Sign Cancer
Born 10 July, 1934
Birthday 10 July
Birthplace Brooklyn, New York, U.S.
Date of death 1 June, 2022
Died Place Rockville, Maryland, U.S.
Nationality United States

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1934

Barry Sussman (July 10, 1934 – June 1, 2022) was an American editor, author, and public opinion analyst who dealt primarily with public policy issues.

He was city news editor at The Washington Post at the time of the Watergate break-in and supervised much of the reporting on the Watergate scandal.

1956

After receiving a degree in English and history from Brooklyn College in 1956, Sussman worked for a New York City advertising agency.

1960

He began his career in journalism in 1960 as a reporter at the Bristol (Va.-Tenn.) Herald Courier, a daily with a circulation of about 25,000.

1965

He left after 16 months but soon returned as managing editor before joining The Washington Post in 1965.

He was a state-suburban editor, then DC editor, with a staff of 40 to 45 reporters.

1973

He was city news editor at The Washington Post at the time of the Watergate scandal and was detached to direct the coverage that led to the Post being awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service in 1973.

While initially a close supervisor of the journalists Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein involved in the Post's coverage of Watergate, Sussman later became estranged from them.

After Watergate, he founded the Washington Post poll, designing and conducting opinion surveys and reporting on the results.

1974

His book, The Great Coverup: Nixon and the Scandal of Watergate, was named by The New York Times as one of the best books of the year in 1974.

1981

in 1981 he was in charge for the Post in establishing and directing the Washington Post/ABC News poll, again designing surveys and doing most of the reporting on the findings.

1987

Sussman left the Post in 1987 to become managing editor for national news at United Press International (UPI), in charge of 800 reporters and editors across the U.S. and 40 more in UPI's Washington bureau.

He left UPI after less than one year, however, and became an independent pollster, continuing to focus on public policy issues.

His clients included trade associations, the AFL–CIO and other interest groups.

1988

He is also the author of What Americans Really Think, published by Pantheon in 1988, based on columns he wrote while pollster and public opinion analyst at The Washington Post, and Maverick: A Life in Politics, written with and about the former U.S. Senator and Governor of Connecticut, Lowell P. Weicker Jr., published in 1995 by Little, Brown.

1990

In the 1990s, he became active as an international news media consultant, with assignments at newspapers in Spain, Portugal and seven Latin American countries.

2003

From 2003 to 2012, he was editor of Nieman Watchdog, a project of the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University, focused on public policy news reporting.

He was a board member of the group Innovation Media Consulting.

Sussman is one of the journalists profiled at Investigating Power, a website covering events in recent American history.

2011

In September 2011, Sussman was the recipient of a lifetime achievement award from Brooklyn College, his alma mater.

Among other awards, Sussman was named editor of the year by the Washington-Baltimore Newspaper Guild for his work on Watergate.

Sussman died on June 1, 2022, at his home in Rockville, Maryland, due to gastrointestinal bleeding.