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Pakinam Amer

A Day in the Life of Pakinam Amer

Pakinam Amer is an award-winning journalist, science writer, podcaster, experimental storyteller, and a former Knight Science Journalism fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She was the senior writer of In Event of Moon Disaster—an Emmy-winning interactive documentary centered around deepfake technology, misinformation, and disinformation. Her stories and podcasts have appeared in Nature, Scientific American, and The Boston Globe, among other outlets.

by TON Editors · November 9, 2021 · Comments are Disabled

Sarah Lewin Frasier

A Day in the Life of Sarah Lewin Frasier

Sarah Lewin Frasier is the assistant news editor at Scientific American; she plans, assigns, and edits the Advances section of the monthly magazine, as well as editing online news. Before joining Scientific American in 2019, she chronicled humanity’s journey to the stars as associate editor at Space.com. She holds an A.B. in mathematics from Brown University and an M.A. in journalism from New York University’s Science, Health and Environmental Reporting Program. She enjoys musical theater and mathematical papercraft.

by TON Editors · September 28, 2021 · Comments are Disabled

Paola Rosa-Aquino

A Day in the Life of Paola Rosa-Aquino

Paola Rosa-Aquino is a Brooklyn-based freelance reporter covering climate change, science, and energy.

by TON Editors · August 10, 2021 · Comments are Disabled

Eric Boodman

A Day in the Life of Eric Boodman

Eric Boodman is a reporter for STAT, where he’s written about entomologists who specialize in fictional infestations, Haitian-American hospital workers lost to COVID-19, and many other subjects. His pieces have also appeared in TheAtlantic.com, Undark, and The Boston Globe Magazine.

by TON Editors · June 22, 2021 · Comments are Disabled

A Day in the Life of Arielle Duhaime-Ross

Arielle Duhaime-Ross is a podcast host and TV correspondent at VICE News. She hosts the investigative news podcast VICE News Reports, and reports on science, health, technology, and climate change for VICE. Before joining VICE, she was a podcast host at Vox.com, where she covered technology. Her writing has appeared in The Verge, Quartz, The Atlantic, Scientific American, and Nature Medicine.

by TON Editors · November 10, 2020 · Comments are Disabled

Maya Wei-Haas

A Day in the Life of Maya Wei-Haas

Maya Wei-Haas is a writer for National Geographic, where she writes about all things science, with a particular affection for rocks and reactions. Before that she was an assistant science editor for Smithsonianmag.com’s Smart News, which turns a Smithsonian lens on daily events. She began her career as a scientist, earning a PhD in environmental chemistry at Ohio State University, and made the jump to writing with the AAAS Mass Media Fellowship.

by TON Editors · October 20, 2020 · Comments are Disabled

Sabrina Imbler

A Day in the Life of Sabrina Imbler

Sabrina Imbler is a freelance science writer and essayist based in Brooklyn, New York. Her work has appeared in Atlas Obscura, The New York Times, The Atlantic, Gay Magazine, and others. Her chapbook about volcanoes, Dyke (geology), is out with Black Lawrence Press, and her essay collection about sea creatures is forthcoming with Little, Brown in 2022.

by TON Editors · September 15, 2020 · Comments are Disabled

A very professorial office at Mizzou.

A Day in the Life of Sara Shipley Hiles

Sara Shipley Hiles is an associate professor of professional practice at the University of Missouri School of Journalism. Before teaching, she was a freelance journalist and staff writer at publications including The Times-Picayune in New Orleans and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. She specializes in science, health, and environmental journalism and serves on the board of the Society of Environmental Journalists.

by TON Editors · February 11, 2020 · Comments are Disabled

Jane J. Lee

A Day in the Life of Jane J. Lee

Jane J. Lee is a science writer and editor based in Los Angeles, California. She spent three and a half years at Nature as a news editor and, before that, three years as a reporter and editor at National Geographic. Her work has also appeared in Science, Wired.com, The San Jose Mercury News, and other publications. Jane is an alumna of the Science Communication Program at UC Santa Cruz and has a master’s in marine biology from UCLA.

by TON Editors · January 28, 2020 · 1 comment

A Day in the Life of Helen Ouyang

Helen Ouyang is an emergency physician, a writer, and an assistant professor at Columbia University. She has written for The Atlantic, Harper’s, the Los Angeles Times, New York, The New Yorker, The New York Times, The New York Times Magazine, and others. She was a 2018 National Magazine Award finalist.

by TON Editors · November 12, 2019 · Comments are Disabled

Joshua Sokol

A Day in the Life of Joshua Sokol

Joshua Sokol is a science writer in the Boston area. He studied astronomy and English literature in college, worked as a data analyst for the Hubble Space Telescope, and then attended MIT’s Graduate Program in Science Writing. Since 2016 he has been a freelancer covering space and other topics in natural history for publications like Quanta, Science, The New York Times, and whoever else will look at his pitches.

by TON Editors · September 10, 2019 · Comments are Disabled

A Day in the Life of Eli Chen

A Day in the Life of Eli Chen

Eli Chen reports on scientific research and environmental issues at St. Louis Public Radio. Her work has appeared in or aired on NPR, Marketplace, WHYY’s The Pulse, The New York Times, Science Friday, and Scientific American. Born and raised in the Chicago suburbs, her role model growing up was Sue the T. rex at the Field Museum, because everyone should aspire to become an apex predator.

by TON Editors · June 11, 2019 · Comments are Disabled

A Day in the Life of Mark Peplow

Mark Peplow is a freelance science journalist based near Cambridge, U.K., who splits his time between writing and editing. He previously spent four years as Nature’s news editor, two years as editor of Chemistry World, and two years as a physical sciences reporter at Nature. He really likes chemistry.

by TON Editors · May 14, 2019 · Comments are Disabled

A Day in the Life of Virginia Hughes

A Day in the Life of Virginia Hughes

Virginia Hughes is the science editor at BuzzFeed News, where she manages five reporters focused on the darker side of science. Before that she was a freelancer reporting on genetics, neuroscience, and medicine. Her writing has appeared in Nature, Popular Science, The New York Times, and twice in the Best American Science and Nature Writing anthology. She grew up in Michigan and now lives with her husband, daughter, and energetic dog in Brooklyn, New York.

by TON Editors · April 23, 2019 · Comments are Disabled

A Day in the Life of Amy Maxmen

A Day in the Life of Amy Maxmen

Amy Maxmen is a senior reporter at Nature, based in San Francisco. She has written about Ebola, evolution, machine learning, and much more.

by TON Editors · January 15, 2019 · 1 comment

A Day in the Life of Ashley Smart

A Day in the Life of Ashley Smart

Ashley Smart is the associate director of the Knight Science Journalism Program at MIT and a senior editor at Undark magazine. He joined KSJ in 2018, after eight years as an editor at Physics Today. He is a member of the advisory board of the Council for the Advancement of Science Writing and a co-chair of the National Association of Science Writers diversity committee. Ashley was a 2015–16 Knight Science Journalism fellow.

by TON Editors · December 18, 2018 · Comments are Disabled

Megha Satyanarayana

A Day in the Life of Megha Satyanarayana

Megha Satyanarayana worked at several newspapers and an online news startup before landing at Chemical & Engineering News. She has covered suburban crime, public health, science and technology, and much more. She also knows a bit about audience engagement and multimedia reporting, and is happy to have landed back in Texas, where sentences start, end, and contain in all grammatical spaces the word y’all, and it works. Really.

by TON Editors · November 13, 2018 · Comments are Disabled

A Day in the Life of Shannon Palus

A Day in the Life of Shannon Palus

Shannon Palus is a journalist based in Brooklyn. She is a senior staff writer at Wirecutter, where she primarily covers health tech and personal care. Her freelance work has appeared in Scientific American, Slate, Popular Science, New Scientist, The Atlantic, Discover, and elsewhere.

by TON Editors · October 16, 2018 · Comments are Disabled

Anna Kuchment

A Day in the Life of Anna Kuchment

Anna Kuchment is a staff science writer at The Dallas Morning News, a contributing editor at Scientific American, and a former reporter and writer at Newsweek magazine. She is a coauthor, with Boston College historian Conevery Bolton Valencius, of the forthcoming book Shaky Ground: The Untold Story of the Largest Earthquake Surge in Modern History, which tells the story of the dramatic rise in earthquakes linked to oil and gas production.

by TON Editors · October 2, 2018 · Comments are Disabled

A Day in the Life of Kat McGowan

A Day in the Life of Kat McGowan

Kat McGowan is a journalist and editor focused on medicine and science. As an editor, she currently works with Grist and Neo Life; her most recent bylines were for Popular Science, Mother Jones, Scientific American, and STAT. She was formerly a consulting editor at the autism science publication Spectrum, a special projects editor at Discover, and senior editor at Psychology Today. She also volunteers at a wildlife hospital and is an active member of the crow team.

by TON Editors · September 18, 2018 · Comments are Disabled

Maryn McKenna

A Day in the Life of Maryn McKenna

Maryn McKenna is a freelancer focused on public and global health and food policy, the author of three books, and a senior fellow of the Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism at Brandeis University. She is a columnist for Wired and has written for The New York Times Magazine, Mother Jones, National Geographic, and many others. Her stories have been anthologized in numerous collections. She appeared in the 2014 documentary Resistance, and her 2015 TED Talk has been viewed 1.6 million times.

by TON Editors · July 17, 2018 · 1 comment

A Day in the Life of George Musser

A Day in the Life of George Musser

For nearly 15 years, George Musser was a senior editor at Scientific American focusing on astronomy and fundamental physics. He thought of himself as the magazine’s Mars correspondent, although tight budgets stopped him from taking up his post. He left the Sci Am staff in 2012 to write his second book, Spooky Action at a Distance , and do a Knight Fellowship. Since then he has been a freelancer, still writing for Sci Am , but also Nautilus , Quanta , and others.

by TON Editors · May 29, 2018 · Comments are Disabled

Becky Lang

A Day in the Life of Becky Lang

Becky Lang is executive editor of the Kalmbach Media Science Group and editor in chief of Discover magazine, where she’s worked since early 2013. She moved to the magazine world from newspapers after 11 years as the health/science/environment editor at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. She’s been writing and editing as a job since high school, when she covered minor league baseball in Helena, Montana (the Milwaukee Brewers’ farm team—go figure). She’s a graduate of Northwestern University.

by TON Editors · May 8, 2018 · Comments are Disabled

Sandeep Ravindran

A Day in the Life of Sandeep Ravindran

Sandeep Ravindran is a freelance science writer based in New York City. He has written about life sciences and technology for publications such as Smithsonian, National Geographic News, Nature, The Scientist, Wired, Popular Science, and Science News for Students. Before becoming a science writer he received a microbiology PhD from Stanford University and studied science communication at UC Santa Cruz.

by TON Editors · April 17, 2018 · Comments are Disabled