Joshuah Bearman

Biography

Joshuah Bearman is an American journalist. He has written for Rolling Stone, Harper's, Wired, The New York Times Magazine, The Believer, and McSweeney's, 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 non-profit tutoring organisation in Los Angeles. He lives in Los Angeles, California. Several of Bearman's 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 Bearman's 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 America's First Drug Empire." It was co-published in GQ and Atavist. His writing has appeared in the Best American Non-Required 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 pick-up game of volleyball at the US-Mexico border. He was the editor-in-chief of Yeti Researcher, a journal in the field of cryptic hominid investigation, published by McSweeney's. He produced and directed McSweeney's Presents, a live comedy series, as a fundraiser for 826LA, a tutoring organisation for children. In 2014, Bearman co-founded Epic, a digital publication of narrative non-fiction and a film and television production company.