Science Editing Webinar Series Science Sources: Where to Find them and How to Vet Them On-Demand

Speakers

Melinda Wenner Moyer

Contributing Editor, Scientific American

Melinda Wenner Moyer

Contributing Editor, Scientific American

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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

Freelance Science Journalist

Roxanne Khamsi

Freelance Science Journalist

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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

Freelance Science Journalist

Wudan Yan

Freelance Science Journalist

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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.

Replay the “Vetting Sources” webinar with Wudan.

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