Joshuah Bearman

Joshuah Bearman is an American journalist. He has written for ''Rolling Stone'', ''Harper's'', ''Wired'', ''The New York Times Magazine'', ''The Believer'', and ''McSweeney's,'' and contributes to ''This American Life.'' Bearman was a contributing producer on the documentary, ''The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters''. Bearman is an advisory board member of 826LA, a non-profit tutoring organization in Los Angeles. He lives in Los Angeles, California.

Several of Bearman's articles have been optioned for film and television adaptation. His 2007 ''Wired'' article about a CIA mission during the Iran Hostage Crisis was adapted as the 2012 film ''Argo,'' with George Clooney producing and Ben Affleck directing and starring. The screenplay, based on Bearman's article, won the Writer's Guild award for Best Adapted Screenplay, and the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. The film won the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Drama at the Golden Globes, the BAFTA Award for Best Film, and Best Picture at the Academy Awards.

Bearman was nominated for a National Magazine Award in 2014 for his article, "Coronado High, the Story of America's First Drug Empire." It was co-published in ''GQ'' and ''Atavist''. His writing has appeared in the Best American Non-Required Reading and Best American Technology Writing anthologies.

Bearman is a former staff writer and editor for the ''LA Weekly.'' He was one half of Team USA in ''Walleyball,'' a short film by Brent Hoff about a pick-up game of volleyball at the US-Mexico border. He was the editor-in-chief of ''Yeti Researcher,'' a journal in the field of cryptic hominid investigation, published by ''McSweeney's.'' He produced and directed ''McSweeney's Presents,'' a live comedy series, as a fundraiser for 826LA, a tutoring organization for children.

In 2014, Bearman co-founded ''Epic,'' a digital publication of narrative non-fiction and film and television production company. Provided by Wikipedia