, Professor of Journalism
Office phone: (406) 243-2503

Sharon Barrett has worked for newspapers as diverse as the Missoulian; El Norte, a Spanish language daily in Monterrey, Mexico; and the Washington Post.

In addition to her years of full-time experience as a reporter and editor, she has worked as a freelancer for the Chicago Tribune and the Wall Street Journal, and for a variety of magazines ranging from journalism publications such as Quill and the American Journalism Review to consumer magazines such as Practical Horseman. For the past 30 years she has been a book critic, first for the Chicago Daily News and since 1978 for the Chicago Sun-Times.

She has had two Fulbright lectureships in journalism: one at the University of Lima, Peru, in fall 1987, and one at the University ORT of Montevideo, Uruguay, in spring 2003. In summer 1996, she returned to Peru to work with Peruvian journalists, and in the fall of the following year to Colombia.

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