Barry was a long-time lecturer at the Journalism and Media Studies Centre (JMSC) at The University of Hong Kong, spending close to a decade teaching the fundamentals of reporting and writing before retiring in 2014. He continued his association with HKU however, running regular English-language grammar boot camps for students.
A journalist with more than 30 years of experience, Barry started his career in journalism in 1967 at the Evening Star in Washington, D.C. After eight years, he moved to Hong Kong in 1975, briefly for NBC News, and then as a staff correspondent for CBS News. In 1979, he joined Time magazine as Eastern Europe bureau chief, based in West Berlin, and subsequently moved to Rome, New York and back to Hong Kong.
Barry took a 14-year break from journalism to pursue entrepreneurial ambitions in Hong Kong including running Il Mercato, a notable Italian restaurant in Central. In late 2002, he returned to journalism, as an editor at the Voice of America bureau in Hong Kong.
His career included coverage of many remarkable news events, including the Watergate corruption scandal in Washington, D.C., the deaths of Zhou Enlai and Mao Zedong and the return to power of Deng Xiaoping in China, the beginnings of the Solidarity movement in Poland and the attempted assassination of Pope John Paul II in Rome, among many other stories.
Attribution: Cal Wong - https://jmsc.hku.hk
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