# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/barry-sussman
# Generated: 2026-08-13T21:28:10.799Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/barry-sussman"
name: "Barry Sussman"
slug: "barry-sussman"
description: "Barry Sussman was an American editor, author, and public opinion analyst who dealt primarily with public policy issues. He was city news editor at The Washington Post at the time of the Watergate break-in and supervised much of the reporting on the Watergate scandal."
tagline: "American editor"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Barrywiki.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1934-07-10"
deathDate: "2022-06-01"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.7
  momentum:             9.705882352941176
  historical:           5.273038666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Sussman"
    title: "Barry Sussman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%89_%D8%B3%D9%88%D8%B3%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%86"
    title: "بارى سوسمان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B8_%D0%A1%D1%8A%D1%81%D0%BC%D0%B0%D0%BD"
    title: "Бари Съсман"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Sussman"
    title: "Barry Sussman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Sussman"
    title: "Barry Sussman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Sussman"
    title: "Barry Sussman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4864813"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump