Cris Barrish

Cris Barrish is a national award-winning multimedia investigative reporter for WHYY News who covers a wide range of topics related to Delaware.

Cris joined WHYY News in 2017 and produces web, radio, and television pieces, including two Emmy Award-winning half-hour documentaries — “Rebound from Murder Town” and “Where is Wilmington High?”

Cris previously worked at Wilmington (Del.) News Journal for more than three decades, starting out writing about local sports but ultimately becoming the senior investigative reporter. At the News Journal, he won dozens of national, regional and local awards for his exposés about corruption, incompetence, and sheer outrageousness in the First State.

He won the University of Colorado/Denver Press Club Al Nakkula Award for Police reporting and other honors for his Pulitzer Prize-nominated series of investigative stories on the failed efforts by police, prosecutors, and medical officials to stop a pedophile pediatrician who raped more than 100 young girls he treated.

Cris lead author of “Fatal Embrace,” the inside story about prominent attorney Tom Capano’s murder of gubernatorial secretary Ann Marie Fahey. He has appeared in several television documentaries and on radio and cable news about cases he covered, including A&E’s “American Justice” and “City Confidential,” the Discovery Network, CNN, NPR, Oxygen, and local and regional news shows.

When he is not tracking down stories for readers, listeners, and viewers, Cris can be found on the local tennis courts, at Edge Fitness in Pike Creek, or cycling on the trails along the White Clay Creek.

If you see Cris, please say hello and perhaps even offer a story tip or an observation about his work.