Deborah Barfield Berry is a national correspondent for USA Today, where she focuses on voting rights, civil rights and politics. Her work has appeared in newspapers across the USA Today Network, Newsday, Knight-Ridder News Service, the Providence Journal, the Times Herald-Record and the Star Democrat.

Berry was part of a Newsday team that won a 1997 Pulitzer for coverage of TWA Flight 800. More recently, she won three 2021 National Association of Black Journalists Salute to Excellence Awards, including two for stories about the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on communities of color and one for her contribution to a special section about the late civil rights legend Rep. John Lewis. She was part of a team that won several awards for the USA Today project 1619: Searching for Answers and was the lead reporter for Seven Days of 1961, a multimedia civil rights project published in 2020.

Berry, a native of Brooklyn, New York, is a graduate of the University of Maryland’s college of journalism. She is part of the 2023 class of Nieman Fellows.