Marcus Baram has worked as a reporter for the New York Daily News and as an editor at Capital & Main and the New York Observer, in addition to freelance writing for The New Yorker, The New York Times, New York magazine and Fortune magazine. In 2021, he was a recipient of the McGraw Fellowship for Business Journalism and is working with Type Investigations to write and report a four-part series for Capital & Main on the erosion of the overtime wage rule in recent decades. Baram’s critically acclaimed 2014 biography of the late Gil Scott-Heron, “Pieces of a Man,” was named a notable book by The New Yorker.
