Greg Barrett

Quick Facts

Full Name	Greg Barrett
Occupation	Journalist
Date Of Birth	Nov 23, 1961(1961-11-23)
Age	63
Birthplace	Bristol
Country	United States
Birth City	Tennessee
Horoscope	Scorpio

Greg Barrett Biography

Greg Barrett is one of the most popular and richest Journalist who was born on November 23, 1961 in Bristol, Tennessee, United States. The man was named Gregory Lane Barrett in Bristol, Tennessee, on November 23rd in 1961. He was raised at Bristol, Virginia, and was a graduate of Bristol’s Virginia High School in 1980. He graduated in 1986 from Virginia Commonwealth University located in Richmond, Virginia. Prior to his college days He worked as a factory employee in Burlington Industries in Bristol, TN. Over the course of more than 20 years in journalism, he was employed as a national, local and foreign reporter for, among them, The Augusta Chronicle (Georgia), The Charlotte Observer (North Carolina), The Honolulu Advertiser The Honolulu Advertiser, The Honolulu Advertiser, Gannett company’s bureau for GNS/USA Today situated in Washington, D.C., and also for The Baltimore Sun.

The first book he wrote for non-fiction, The Gospel of Father Joe: Revelations and Revolutions within Bangkok’s Slums in Bangkok (Wiley in 2008) tells the story of the priest from the Redemptorist Catholic Church Rev. Joseph H. Maier, born in Washington located in Washington in the United States who lives and lives in the slums of the port that lie in Bangkok, Thailand. For more than 30 years, “Father Joe” and his non-profit Human Development Foundation and Mercy Centre have helped alleviate Bangkok’s gnarly poverty by constructing and directing more than thirty slum-based kindergartens and orphanages, as well as four, and two AIDS hospices, sometimes without church approval or permits from the law. The Nautilus Book Awards honored The Gospel of Father Joe with a silver medal in 2009 in the category of Conscious Media- Journalism-Investigative Reporting. In June 2012, Barrett’s story-based Nonfiction Book The Gospel of Rutba: The Gospel of Rutba: War, Peace and the Good Samaritan Story in Iraq was published from Orbis Books, a leading U.S. publisher of religious books as well as the publishing branch for the Maryknoll Fathers and Brothers. The book was written by Orbis publisher Robert Ellsberg, son of Daniel Ellsberg, the whistle-blower who released documents from the Pentagon Papers in 1971. The book The Gospel of Rutba Barrett recounts the tale of three U.S. Christian peacemakers who sustained injuries by a serious car accident during the war in Iraq as part of the U.S.-led bombing of the nation in the month of March. He relates the story of how the town in the western desert of Ar Rutba, a majority Sunni town that was heavily attacked by America, United States, turned the other cheek and helped those injured Americans three of them: author and activist Shane Claiborne of Philadelphia’s The Simple Way; Christian Peacemaker Teams veteran Cliff Kindy; and Mennonite pastor-activist Rev. Weldon Nisly. Three days prior on the 26th of March 2003, the only hospital in Rutba was bombed with U.S. Army Special Forces. After saving, treating and defending peacemakers Rutba’s residents rejected the Americans attempt to compensate them. Doctor. Farouq Al-Dulaimi, the director of the hospital who was killed three days prior, demanded that those Americans to do just the one thing “Go and tell the world about Rutba.” Seven years after, Barrett, who had been on the streets of the prewar Iraq in February and January of 2003 along with triple-time Nobel Peace Prize nominee Kathy Kelly returned to Iraq with peacemakers who were not armed in an attempt to tell the story of Rutba. Archbishop emeritus Rev. Desmond Tutu contributed the book’s introduction, and The Simple Way’s Shane Claiborne, author of The Irresistible Revolution: How to Live as An Ordinary Radical, wrote its afterword.

As a traveling international and national correspondent within GNS/USA Today’s Washington, D.C. bureau for GNS/USA Today, he was sent for a trip to Thailand for the year 2000, to provide an update on the socio-economic and political circumstances that led to U.N. protocols intended to stop the trafficking of sex. It was in Thailand that he was introduced to the work from Mercy Centre. Mercy Centre and Rev. Joe Maier. Barrett reports on Egypt, Jordan, Iraq, Israel and the Palestinian Territories.

Greg Barrett Net Worth

Greg Barrett is one of the richest Journalist from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Greg Barrett 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

The year 1997 was the time that Barrett worked as his position as the Native Hawaiian Affairs reporter for the newspaper’s morning edition that was published in Honolulu, Hawaii, when he began to investigate concerns about the management controversy of Kamehameha Schools which is an exclusive college- preparatory private school established around 1887. It was founded in 1887 by Bernice Pauahi Bishop who was an Hawaiian Princess, Philanthropist, and her great-granddaughter from Kamehameha I. Kamehameha I. The school for Hawaiians only, officially known as Kamehameha School/Bishop Estate, or KSBE was run by five trustees of Bishop Estate, Hawaii’s largest private landowner. Barrett’s report on the micromanagement of Kamehameha Schools unleashed critics of Bishop Estate, which led to an investigation into the estate by the State Attorney General of Hawaii. In 1998 the trustees, all of whom was paid between $800,000 and $900,000 per year were either forced to resign or had were permanently removed of the estate by state. In the was the same year that faculty association in Kamehameha Schools entered Barrett for an article in the local news Pulitzer for a series of reports that assisted “to break open the secretive affairs of KSBE (Kamehameha Schools Bishop Estate) with unprecedented charges by alumni and faculty of mismanagement of the Kamehameha Schools.” Barrett’s investigation into KSBE is mentioned in a variety of publications for bringing about changes within Kamehameha Schools and Bishop Estate.

In Hawaii He co-wrote a children’s book along with the author Jane Hopkins, adapted by Lisa Matsumoto and illustrated by Michael Furuya. This book Wailana the Waterbug (Mutual Publishing 1999) is a tribute to the short but inspiring story of leukemia patient three years old Alana Dung. The proceeds from the book go to the Alana Dung Research Foundation, an organization that was founded by Alana’s parents in order to fund medical research into cancer and enhance the standard of life for children. In 2000, Wailana the Waterburg was awarded the Hawaii Ka Palapala Po’okela Award for outstanding children’s literature. The following year in July 2001, Hawaiian’s Ohi’a Productions transformed the book into the company’s first big-scale musical, On Dragonfly Wings. On stage and on paper, the idea of a waterbug’s transformation into a dragonfly , is used to depict death as the beginning of the journey and not the end.

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