A Day in the Life of Amy Maxmen
Amy Maxmen is a senior reporter at Nature, based in San Francisco. Follow her on Twitter @amymaxmen and Instagram @amaxmen. A selection of her stories on Ebola, evolution, machine learning, and much more are at […]
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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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 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, but also covering topics from child psychology to arms proliferation. He thought of himself as the magazine’s Mars […]
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 […]
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 […]
A Day in the Life of Max Ufberg
Max Ufberg is the digital director of Pacific Standard, where he oversees the magazine’s online editorial operations. He joined the magazine in 2015 and has since written about a range of topics including addiction, the […]
A Day in the Life of Anahad O’Connor
Anahad O’Connor is a bestselling author and staff reporter for The New York Times. He covers consumer health, writing about topics such as nutrition, chronic disease, obesity, and the food industry. He joined the paper in 2003 and has […]
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