Joe Shapiro is a Senior Writer at U.S. News & World Report,
where his coverage of social policy issues focuses on health care; aging
and long-term care; disability and chronic
illness; death, dying and physician-assisted suicide;
and children and families. Since 1982, when he joined the magazine,
he has served as Rome bureau chief (1986-87), White
House correspondent (1983-86) and
congressional reporter (1982-83). He was named a Senior Writer for
Social Policy in 1996, a Senior Editor for Social Policy in 1993 and an
Associate Editor for Social Policy in 1987.
His book, NO PITY: People with Disabilities Forging a New Civil Rights Movement (Times Books/Random House, 1993, 1994), won awards from several major disability organizations. His magazine writing in the 1990s also has won over three dozen media awards.Before joining U.S. News, he worked for the Scripps-Howard News Service in Washington, the Memphis Commercial Appeal, and in Italy for the Rome Daily American and as a Vatican correspondent for the Religious News Service. In addition to writing NO PITY, he has contributed articles to academic journals and has contributed chapters to several books on disability-related topics.At U.S. News, he helped run a mentoring and internship program with Ballou Senior High School in Washington, D.C. He also was a member of the Multicultural Journalists Association, a group that mentored Washington public high school journalism students and raised money to publish student newspapers. He attended the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism (M.S., 1976) and Carleton College (B.A., 1975, magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa). |