Joshuah Bearman

Joshuah Bearman is an American journalist He has written for Rolling Stone Harpers Wired The New York Times Magazine The Believer and McSweeneys and contributes to This American Life Bearman was a contributing producer on the documentary The King of Kong A Fistful of Quarters Bearman is an advisory board member of 826LA a nonprofit tutoring organisation in Los Angeles He lives in Los Angeles California Several of Bearmans articles have been optioned for film and television adaptation His 2007 Wired article about a CIA mission during the Iran Hostage Crisis was adapted into the 2012 film Argo with George Clooney producing Ben Affleck directing and starring The screenplay based on Bearmans article won the Writers Guild Award for Best Adapted Screenplay and the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay The film won the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture Drama at the Golden Globes the BAFTA Award for Best Film and Best Picture at the Academy Awards Bearman was nominated for a National Magazine Award in 2014 for his article Coronado High the Story of Americas First Drug Empire It was copublished in GQ and Atavist His writing has appeared in the Best American NonRequired Reading and Best American Technology Writing anthologies Bearman is a former staff writer and editor for the LA Weekly He was one half of Team USA in Walleyball a short film by Brent Hoff about a pickup game of volleyball at the USMexico border He was the editorinchief of Yeti Researcher a journal in the field of cryptic hominid investigation published by McSweeneys He produced and directed McSweeneys Presents a live comedy series as a fundraiser for 826LA a tutoring organisation for children In 2014 Bearman cofounded Epic a digital publication of narrative nonfiction and a film and television production company Description above from the Wikipedia article Joshuah Bearman licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia