Writer Bio

Joshua Brockman is an accomplished writer and multimedia journalist whose stories and photographs have been published by The New York Times, NPR, and Smithsonian, among many other national publications and broadcast outlets.

Since 2000, he’s been filing breaking news and feature stories for The New York Times on health, business, technology, and culture. Brockman focuses on public interest investigations about health, medical, and safety issues.

He broke news about equitable access to drugs during the pandemic, how consumers have been seriously injured or disabled due to lapses in bus and train safety, and how technology is changing the landscape for disabled travelers, among many other exclusives.

In Washington, D.C., as a staff reporter, producer, and on-air contributor for NPR’s website and All Things Considered, Newscast, and Morning Edition, he covered consumer business and technology, as well as the economy, real estate, the stock and bond markets, and all aspects of Wall Street and personal finance during the 2008 financial crisis and its aftermath.

During his tenure, Brockman conversed with Stevie Wonder about accessible technology, went shopping at a gun show in Virginia, and rode shotgun in the car that won the X Prize. He won accolades from colleagues and listeners nationwide for the humor and creative storytelling in his reports.

His passion for whitewater and sea kayaking, hiking, and backcountry skiing has also informed his reporting, writing, and editing for some of the nation’s top outdoor adventure magazines including Outside, where, as a staff editor, he helped to polish some of the magazine’s most ambitious feature stories.

Over the past two decades, he’s covered stories all across the globe, from the Galápagos—where he explored remote islands on foot and by sea kayak to report on the archipelago’s efforts to create a new, sustainable tourism model to replace one that is decades old—to New York City, where he worked as a field producer for ABC News and on Saturday Night Live’s short-film unit.

A skilled digital photographer/videographer, Brockman always carries his camera on assignments to document the visual story that unfolds as part of his reportage. He’s a graduate of Amherst College, where he majored in 20th-Century U.S. History, and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.