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.
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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. 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 alt-right, and Big Oil. Most of his time is spent editing, and he’s edited stories that have appeared in the Best American series and have been finalists for national awards.
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 covered everything from business to politics and culture. His focus since 2011 has been the intersection of food and health. A graduate of Yale, he is the author of four books, and currently lives in San Francisco.
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