Joseph P. Shapiro, U.S. News & World Report

U.S. News & World Report

Joseph P. Shapiro (Photo: Linda Creighton)

Joseph P. Shapiro is a senior writer for U.S. News & World Report, covering a wide range of social policy issues, from aging and disability to health, children, families and civil rights.

Since joining the magazine in 1982, Shapiro has also served as a Congressional and White House correspondent and bureau chief in Rome.

His journalism has won numerous awards, including the Casey Medal for Meritorious Journalism for reporting about disadvantaged children, and the Unity Award for coverage of civil rights and the disadvantaged. He has also been honored by the Society of Professional Journalists; Harvard University's Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy; and the Education Writers of America.

Shapiro was a Kaiser Media Fellow in Health (1996-1997) and received an Alicia Patterson Foundation Fellowship in 1990.

He is the author of No Pity: People with Disabilities Forging a New Civil Rights Movement (Times Books, 1994). Shapiro has contributed to several academic journals and books.

He is a frequent lecturer and radio and television commentator.

Shapiro received his B.S. from Carleton College in Minnesota and an M.A. from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in New York.