Charles Bethea
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Charles Bethea (born 1981) is an American journalist and magazine writer. Currently, he is a staff writer at The New Yorker magazine.[1] where his work has focused on politics, local media and the American South.[1] He previously worked at Outside Magazine and Atlanta Magazine.[1] Bethea has been honored with awards from the City and Regional Magazine Association,[2] Syracuse University’s S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications,[3] and the Georgia Museum of Agriculture [4],, among others. He was named to Georgia Trend’s “40 Under 40” list in 2020.[5]
Life and career[edit]
Charles Bethea was raised in Atlanta, Georgia. His father, Gray Bethea, was an attorney.[5] His mother, Sally Bethea, was the founding director of the Upper Chattahoochee Riverkeeper Project,[6] and his brother is a teacher.[7]
Bethea graduated with a bachelor's degree from Brown University,[8] and, during a semester off, thru-hiked the Appalachian Trail.[5][9] After graduating, he moved to New Hampshire and worked as a member of an Appalachian Mountain Club hut crew, located in the White Mountains,[9] and then to Santa Fe, New Mexico, where he functioned in various editorial roles for Outside Magazine. In 2009, he became a contributing writer at Atlanta Magazine, where he won the 2011 City and Regional Magazine “Reporting” Award for “Final Exit,” a story about assisted suicide,[2] and later became Writer-at-Large.[1][10] Bethea became a staff writer at The New Yorker magazine in 2018, after contributing to the magazine for a decade.[1] He won the 2021 Mirror Award for his New Yorker story, “What Happens When the News Is Gone?” [3]. He has appeared on A.B.C. News,[11] C.N.N,[12] C.N.B.C.,[13] and other media outlets to discuss his work, which has also appeared in Grantland, The New Republic, the Wall Street Journal, GQ, Rolling Stone, and Wired.[1] Additionally, Bethea co-produced a 2014 documentary film, “Fair Chase,” [14] based on his 2011 Outside Magazine article of the same title.[15] It premiered at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival, in 2015 [16]
Works[edit]
- Bethea, Charles “The Georgia Dad Who Said That He Wanted To Kill Nancy Pelosi.”[17]
- Bethea, Charles “How The QAnon Candidate Marjorie Greene Reached The Doorstep of Congress.”[18]
- Bethea, Charles “The Race To Investigate A Coronavirus Outbreak At A Georgia Prep School.”[19]
- Bethea, Charles "What Happens When The News Is Gone?”[20]
- Bethea, Charles “Mark Meadows And The Undisclosed Dinosaur Property.”[21]
- Bethea, Charles “Why Did The Police Shoot Matthew Zadok Williams?”[22]
- Bethea, Charles “Final Exit.”[23]
Accolades[edit]
- Georgia Trend “40 under 40” honoree (2020) [5]
- Mirror Award, “Best Single Article / Story,” for “What Happens When The News Is Gone?” (2021) [3]
References[edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 "Charles Bethea". The New Yorker. Retrieved 2021-08-02.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Winners of City and Regional Magazine Awards named". Poynter. 2011-05-04. Retrieved 2021-08-02.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 "Newhouse School announces winners in 2021 Mirror Awards competition". Newhouse School at Syracuse University. Retrieved 2021-08-02.
- ↑ "Georgia Museum of Agriculture Names Winners for 'Back Roads' Competition". abacarchive.website. Retrieved 2021-08-02.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 "Georgia Trend's 2020 40 Under 40". Georgia Trend Magazine. 2020-10-01. Retrieved 2021-08-02.
- ↑ Admin, C. R. K. "Sally Bethea". Chattahoochee Riverkeeper. Retrieved 2021-08-02.
- ↑ "Teaching at La Jolla Country Day School | Private School". www.ljcds.org. Retrieved 2021-08-02.
- ↑ "The View from on High". www.brownalumnimagazine.com. Retrieved 2021-08-02.
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 Bethea, Charles (2013-09-26). "Hiking Hut-to-Hut in the Presidential Range". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2021-08-02.
- ↑ Fennessy, Steve (2014-05-21). "Q&A: Writer Charles Bethea talks about his experience interviewing Aubrey Lee Price". Atlanta Magazine. Retrieved 2021-08-02.
- ↑ "Fugitive Banker's Life on the Run Included Drug Trafficking, Fake IDs". ABC News. Retrieved 2021-08-02.
- ↑ "CNN.com - Transcripts". transcripts.cnn.com. Retrieved 2021-08-02.
- ↑ "Could Aubrey Lee Price's story get a hollywood makeover?". CNBC. 2016-06-02. Retrieved 2021-08-02.
- ↑ Fair Chase (2014) - IMDb, retrieved 2021-08-02
- ↑ "Fair Chase". Outside Online. 2011-04-19. Retrieved 2021-08-02.
- ↑ "'Fair Chase' to Debut at Film Festival". Outside Online. 2015-01-28. Retrieved 2021-08-02.
- ↑ Nast, Condé (2021-01-15). "The Georgia Dad Who Said That He Wanted to Kill Nancy Pelosi". The New Yorker. Retrieved 2021-08-02.
- ↑ Nast, Condé (2020-10-09). "How the "QAnon Candidate" Marjorie Taylor Greene Reached the Doorstep of Congress". The New Yorker. Retrieved 2021-08-02.
- ↑ Nast, Condé (2020-08-18). "The Race to Investigate a Coronavirus Outbreak at a Georgia Prep School". The New Yorker. Retrieved 2021-08-02.
- ↑ Nast, Condé (2020-01-27). "What Happens When the News Is Gone?". The New Yorker. Retrieved 2021-08-02.
- ↑ Nast, Condé (2019-10-01). "Mark Meadows and the Dinosaur Property". The New Yorker. Retrieved 2021-08-02.
- ↑ Nast, Condé (2021-07-06). "Why Did the Police Shoot Matthew Zadok Williams?". The New Yorker. Retrieved 2021-08-02.
- ↑ Bethea, Charles (2010-03-01). "Final Exit". Atlanta Magazine. Retrieved 2021-08-02.
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