# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/josh-barro
# Generated: 2026-08-13T06:01:44.860Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/josh-barro"
name: "Josh Barro"
slug: "josh-barro"
description: "Joshua A. Barro is an American journalist and creator of the newsletter and podcast Very Serious. He previously hosted the weekly radio program Left, Right, & Center based at KCRW Los Angeles and served as a senior editor and columnist at Business Insider."
tagline: "American journalist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Josh_Barro.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1984-07-17"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           48.27
  momentum:             10
  historical:           1.640361333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  84
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/jbarro"
    handle:    "jbarro"
  - platform:  "INSTAGRAM"
    url:       "https://www.instagram.com/joshbarro/"
    handle:    "joshbarro"
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/jbarro"
    handle:    "jbarro"
  - platform:  "LINKEDIN"
    url:       "https://www.linkedin.com/in/josh-barro-8bb61b82/"
    handle:    "josh-barro-8bb61b82"
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josh_Barro"
    title: "Josh Barro"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16204488"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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