# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/barbara-demick
# Generated: 2026-08-13T15:52:59.408Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/barbara-demick"
name: "Barbara Demick"
slug: "barbara-demick"
description: "Barbara Demick is an American journalist. She was the Beijing bureau chief of the Los Angeles Times. She is also known for her books Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea, Eat the Buddha: Life and Death in a Tibetan Town, and Daughters of the Bamboo Grove: China’s Stolen Children and a Story of Separated Twins."
tagline: "American journalist"
gender: "female"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1959"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           10.98603733333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://x.com/BarbaraDemick"
    handle:    "BarbaraDemick"
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Barbara Demick"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Barbara Demick"
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    title: "Barbara Demick"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Barbara Demick"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump