Kim, a tenacious reporter of estimable skills, will be based in London.
She has helped show how police traffic stops turn deadly and described the seedy underbelly of a “zombie McDonald’s.” She revived a cold case about a homicide in Laramie, Wyo. for Serial’s first show hosted by a Times reporter, and took on New York City’s broken system for protecting tenants and affordable apartments.
Now we are pleased to announce that Kim Barker is bringing her estimable skills back to the International desk for overseas assignments that will start with coverage of the war in Ukraine.
Kim’s roots go back to ProPublica, where she worked before joining The Times in 2014, and The Chicago Tribune, where she served as South Asia bureau chief. Her 2011 book “The Taliban Shuffle: Strange Days in Afghanistan and Pakistan” was made into the film “Whiskey Tango Foxtrot,” with Tina Fey starring as the fictional Kim.
