Michael Barbaro is the host of The Daily, the most popular news podcast in the United States and the most listened-to show of 2024 on Apple Podcasts. Before creating The Daily, he was a national political correspondent for The Times and host of The Run-Up, a podcast that chronicled the 2016 race for US president. Previously, he wrote about New York’s government and the US retail industry. He joined The Times in 2005 from The Washington Post. A native of Connecticut, he graduated from Yale in 2002 with a bachelor’s degree in history.