Joshuah Bearman is an American journalist. He has written for ''

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'', '' The Believer'', and ''

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,'' and contributes to ''

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.'' Bearman was a contributing producer on the documentary, '' The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters''. Bearman is an advisory board member of

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, a non-profit tutoring organization in Los Angeles. He lives in

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. 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 ''

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,'' 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

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. The film won the

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at the Golden Globes, the

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, and

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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 ''

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''. 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 ''

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.'' 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 ''

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,'' a digital publication of narrative non-fiction and film and television production company.