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Barbara Feinman Todd got her start in the 1980s as a researcher for journalist Bob Woodward.

Barbara Feinman Todd got her start in the 1980s as a researcher for journalist Bob Woodward.

BARBARA FEINMAN TODD

Barbara Feinman Todd is the founding Journalism Director at Georgetown University, where she teaches in the English Department. Cofounder of the Pearl Project, she coauthored the e-book The Truth Left Behind: Inside the Kidnapping and Murder of Daniel Pearl (2011). Her work has appeared in The Washington Post, Glamour, HuffPost, The Daily Beast, Newsweek, and on NPR. Her memoir, Pretend I'm Not Here (2007), details her time as a former ghostwriter and book researcher who worked with Bob Woodward, Carl Bernstein, Ben Bradlee, and Hillary Clinton.

"The best thing you can do is to be like a therapist, be like a rabbi, to just get them to talk and to steer them if there's something interesting."

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