Science Editing Webinar Series

Melinda Wenner Moyer is a science journalist and a visiting scholar at New York University’s Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute. She is a contributing editor at Scientific American and regularly writes for The New York Times. She was the recipient of the 2019 Bricker Award for Science Writing in Medicine, and her work has been featured in Best American Science and Nature Writing 2020. Her writing has also taken first place in the American Society of Journalists and Authors’ Annual Writing Awards and the Awards for Excellence in Health Care Reporting. She lives in New York’s Hudson Valley with her husband and two children.

Replay the “Vetting Sources” webinar with Melinda.

Roxanne Khamsi is an independent science journalist whose articles have appeared in publications such as The Economist, WIRED magazine, Nature, Scientific American, New Scientist and The New York Times. She has received wide recognition for her work, including the American Medical Writers Association’s Walter C. Alvarez Award and multiple first-place awards from the Association of Health Care Journalists. Her reporting has been featured on television and radio programs such as CBS News and WNYC’s On The Media show. Roxanne has taught health reporting and science communication at Stony Brook University’s Alan Alda Center and at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism in New York. She lives in Montreal.

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Wudan Yan is an independent journalist in Seattle, WA covering science and society. Her work has appeared in California Sunday Magazine, Elemental, Harper’s, MIT Technology Review, National Geographic, The New Yorker, The New York Times, and others.

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Fen Montaigne began his journalism career at the Houma Courier, a small daily in Louisiana’s Cajun country. He went on to spend 20 years as a newspaper reporter, 15 of them at The Philadelphia Inquirer. He was the Moscow correspondent during the collapse of the Soviet Union and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in feature writing. He spent a dozen years working as a freelance writer, with articles appearing in National Geographic, The New Yorker, The Wall Street Journal, and other publications. He is the author of several books, including the travel/adventure tale Reeling in Russia, and an account of climate change in Antarctica, Fraser’s Penguins, for which he received a Guggenheim fellowship. He helped launch the magazine Yale Environment 360 in 2008 and is its senior editor.

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Lyndsey Gilpin is the founder and editor-in-chief of Southerly. Born and raised in Louisville, Kentucky and now based in Durham, N.C., she is a reporter and editor who has covered climate change, energy, environmental justice all over the U.S. She is currently a JSK Community Impact Fellow through Stanford University. Her work has appeared in Harper’s, High Country News, The Washington Post, Hakai, The Atlantic, Grist, Outside, and more.

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Neela Banerjee is NPR’s first-ever Supervising Climate Editor, tasked with working across the newsroom to lead the network’s broad climate coverage. Before starting at NPR in April 2020, Neela spent five years as senior correspondent at InsideClimate News, where she led the team that revealed how Exxon had conducted its own ambitious climate research as far back as the mid-1970s. The Exxon project spurred public interest lawsuits, won more than a dozen national journalism awards and was a finalist for 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service Reporting. Before ICN, Neela was the energy and environment reporter in the Los Angeles Times’ Washington DC bureau. Prior to that, she was a reporter for The New York Times and had beats as diverse as global energy, the Iraq war and faith in America. She began her journalism career at The Wall Street Journal, where she served mostly as a Russia correspondent. Neela grew up all over the U.S., but mostly in southeast Louisiana, and is a graduate of Yale University.

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Carmel Shachar, JD, MPH, is the Executive Director of the
Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School. She is responsible for oversight of the Center’s sponsored research portfolio, event programming, fellowships, student engagement, development, and a range of other projects and collaborations. Carmel was responsible fo designing, recruiting for, and launching both the Center’s Health Care General Counsel Roundtable and the Center’s Advisory Board. She is involved heavily with the Center’s Project on Precision Medicine, Artificial Intelligence, and the Law, and its Diagnosing in the Home Initiative. Carmel is also a Lecturer at Law on Harvard Law School, where she co-teaches a course on “Health Care Rights in the Twenty-First Century.” Carmel’s scholarship focuses on law and health policy, in particular the regulation of access to care for vulnerable individuals, the use of telehealth and digital health products, and the application of public health ethics to real world questions.

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Erin Brodwin is a health-tech reporter at STAT, a health-and-medicine news site affiliated with The Boston Globe. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, she focuses her reporting on Silicon Valley power players like Apple, Amazon, Google, Facebook, and Microsoft and their ambitions in health care. Before joining STAT, Erin spent five years as a health-and-science reporter at Business Insider, where she wrote the definitive account of what went wrong at the microbiome start-up uBiome, leading to an FBI investigation and the company’s eventual bankruptcy. She has been interviewed on NPR and the BBC and has had her work cited by outlets including The New York Times and the World Economic Forum.

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Katherine J. Wu is a staff writer for The Atlantic, where she covers science. She is also a Story Collider senior producer. She previously served as a science reporter for The New York Times, a staff writer for NOVA Next, and an early career fellow at the Open Notebook. She was also a AAAS Mass Media Fellow at Smithsonian magazine and a production editor at Undark. In 2018, she earned a Ph.D. in microbiology and immunobiology from Harvard University. She is the 2020 winner of the Evert Clark/Seth Payne Award for Young Science Journalists.

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Kendra Pierre-Louis is a climate reporter with the Gimlet/Spotify podcast How to Save a Planet. Prior to joining Gimlet she was a climate reporter with The New York Times, and Popular Science. She is also the author of the book, “Green Washed: Why We Can’t Buy Our Way to a Green Planet.” Kendra has a Master’s in Science Writing from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and in Sustainable Development with a focus on Policy Analysis and Advocacy from the SIT Graduate Institute, and a B.A. in Economics from Cornell University. When she’s not achieving dramatic feats like living in France without eating butter, Kendra can often be found on Twitter railing against mayo.

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Laura Helmuth is the editor in chief of Scientific American and a former editor at The Washington Post, National Geographic, Slate, Smithsonian, and Science magazines. A former president of the National Association of Science Writers, she serves on the boards of SciLine, Spectrum, High Country News, and the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine’s Standing Committee on Advancing Science Communication. She is a birder and on Twitter way too much, at @LauraHelmuth.

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Melba Newsome is a veteran freelance journalist and editor in Charlotte, North Carolina with more than 20 years of experience reporting on news and general interest topics. Over the past year, she has reported extensively on the physiological, emotional, and societal impact of the coronavirus. She received a grant from the Pulitzer Center for Crisis Reporting to conduct in-depth reporting on COVID-19 in the Black Community. In the past decade, her reporting has focused primarily on education and health, with a concentration on disparities and rural health. A feature in O, The Oprah Magazine about genetic testing earned the June Roth Award for Medical Journalism. She has also published in Scientific American, Chemical & Engineering News, Prevention, The Hechinger Report, and The New York Times. She holds a Bachelor’s Degree in English from Henderson State University

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Chaseedaw Giles is an artist and creative storyteller working as the Social Media Editor for Kaiser Health News (KHN) where she manages the newsroom’s social media channels and co-produces KHN’s video mini-series “Behind the Byline”. Her own bylines can be found in the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, USA Today, NPR, the Daily Beast and more. Before KHN, as the Social Media and Communications Specialist for the American Society of Microbiology (ASM), she started the society’s annual Agar Art contest, where microbiologists draw on petri dishes with bacteria to create artwork. The international contest has been featured in Huffington Post, Discover Magazine and USA Today. She also wrote about using social media for science communication in ASM’s Cultures Magazine. She has a BA in Communications from Boston College and received her Social Media Management Certification at Georgetown University’s School of Continuing Studies.

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Katie Fleeman is audience-engagement editor at Knowable Magazine, where she manages social media, republishing, and analytics. She learned about academic publishing at PLOS and then dove into the media start-up world at ATTN:. She extends her gratitude to the social-media and engagement editors who shared their thoughts and advice.

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Sukee Bennett is the senior digital editor at NOVA, where she manages its social strategy, writes weekly newsletters, reports, writes and edits science news articles, and collaborates on its YouTube series “Parentalogic” and podcast “NOVA Now.” She earned a master’s in science communication from UC Santa Cruz and a bachelor’s in ecology and evolutionary biology from the University of Colorado, Boulder. A former New England Aquarium educator, she has an endless passion for animals, conservation, and the outdoors (and thinks astronomy is really cool, too).

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Apoorva Mandavilli is a reporter for The New York Times, focusing on science and global health. She is the 2019 winner of the Victor Cohn Prize for Excellence in Medical Science Reporting. She is the founding editor in chief of Spectrum, an award-winning news site on autism science that reaches an audience of millions. She led the team there for 13 years. She joined The Times in May 2020, after two years as a regular contributor. Apoorva has won numerous awards for her writing. Her work has been published in The Atlantic, Slate, and The New Yorker online, and in the anthology Best American Science and Nature Writing. She co-founded Culture Dish, an organization dedicated to enhancing diversity in science journalism, and was the founding chair of the Diversity Committee for the National Association of Science Writers. Apoorva has a master-of-arts degree in journalism from New York University and a master-of-science degree in biochemistry from the University of Wisconsin at Madison. She is fluent in English, Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, and Kannada.

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Ed Yong is a science journalist who reports for The Atlantic. He is based in Washington, DC. For his coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, he won the George Polk Award for science reporting; the Victor Cohn Prize for medical science reporting, the Neil and Susan Sheehan Award for investigative journalism; the John P. McGovern Award from the American Medical Writers’ Association; and the AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Award for in-depth reporting. I CONTAIN MULTITUDES, his first book, looked at the amazing partnerships between animals and microbes and was a New York Times bestseller. He also has a Chatham Island black robin named after him.

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Emily Anthes is a science journalist and author. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Wired, Nature, Slate, Businessweek, and elsewhere. Her magazine features have won several awards, including the AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Award and the NASW Science in Society Journalism Award. She is also the author of The Great Indoors: The Surprising Science of How Buildings Shape Our Behavior, Health, and Happiness and Frankenstein’s Cat: Cuddling Up to Biotech’s Brave New Beasts. Emily has a master’s degree in science writing from MIT and a bachelor’s degree in the history of science and medicine from Yale, where she also studied creative writing. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.

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