Science Journalism Laureates
Clive Cookson (appointed 2006)Cookson has worked in science journalism his entire professional life. He graduated Oxford University in 1974 with a first class honors degree in chemistry. After two years at the Luton Evening Post, he joined the Times Higher Education Supplement — first as science correspondent in London and then as American editor in Washington, D.C. Cookson returned to London in 1981 as technology correspondent of the Times. In 1983, he moved to BBC Radio as a science and medical correspondent. He went back to print journalism in 1987, when he joined his present newspaper, the Financial Times, as technology editor. He also has written about the chemical and pharmaceutical industries for the Financial Times, and, since 1991, has been the paper's science editor. He won Glaxo science journalism prizes in 1994 and 1998. David Ewing Duncan (appointed 2006)
Joel Garreau (appointed 2006) Simon Grose (appointed 2006) Moira Gunn (appointed 2006)
Susan Hassler (appointed 2009)
Joan Leach (appointed 2006)
Sabine Louët (appointed 2006)Louët is the News Editor of Nature Biotechnology. She has been working for about 10 years in publishing and her many experiences as a writer has led her to write for various publications including the pharmaceutical and biotechnology strategy magazine In Vivo and the now defunct biomedical portal BioMedNet. She has also contributed to Science’s career portal Next Wave. Prior to that, she has been actively involved in the creation of a European news releases broker service, called AlphaGalileo, designed to help raise the profile of research emanating from European laboratories. Apoorva Mandavilli (appointed 2006)
Kevin Maney (appointed 2009)
Nuala Moran (appointed 2006)
K. John Morrow Jr. (appointed 2009)
Jason Pontin (appointed 2006)Pontin is an editor, journalist and publisher. He is the editor in chief and publisher of Technology Review, an independent publication owned by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology that describes emerging technologies and analyzes their impact. He was hired as the editor of Technology Review in July 2004, and in August of 2005 was also named publisher. In 2006, Technology Review was named as a finalist in the National Magazine Awards in the category of General Excellence. From 1996 to 2002, Pontin was the editor of Red Herring magazine, a business and technology magazine that was popular during the dot-com boom. From 2002 to 2004, he was the editor of The Acumen Journal, a now-defunct magazine about the life sciences that he founded. Pontin has written for The Economist, The Financial Times, Wired, The Believer Magazine, Readymade Magazine, and InfoWorld. He is a frequent guest on broadcast, public, and cable television news, and appears every week on CNN. Peter Pockley (appointed 2007)
Jon Turney (appointed 2007)Turney studied biochemistry and history of science and has worked as a journalist, civil servant academic, and publisher. He has been a science writer since the early 1980s, and was science editor, then features editor, for The Times Higher Education Supplement. Turney has devised science communication courses and taught at Birbeck and University College London, where he ended up as senior lecturer in science communication and head of the Department of Science and Technology Studies. He left UCL for a stint as an editorial director at Penguin Press in London, commissioning popular science books. Since 2004, he has concentrated on freelance writing for a wide range of clients and also leads a program in creative non-fiction writing at Imperial College London. Turney has published numerous book chapters, papers and essays on science and science communication, especially on ways of analyzing popular science text. He has written for New Scientist, The Guardian, Times, Independent, Financial Times, Times Literary Supplement, and New York Times. Jon Van (appointed 2007)
Peter Winter (appointed 2009)
Jeffrey R. Young (appointed 2006)
Glenn Zorpette (appointed 2007)Zorpette is executive editor of IEEE Spectrum, the flagship publication of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. He first joined the staff in 1984 and worked at the magazine for almost 11 years. In 1993 he won a National Magazine Award for an article on Iraq's efforts to build an atomic bomb. Between 1995 and 2001, he worked at Scientific American and Red Herring magazines before rejoining Spectrum in June 2001. He earned a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering in 1983 from Brown University and has been an IEEE member since August 2001. Zorpette is the author of several books. He recently received the Grand Neal Award and also was recognized as the 13th recipient of the McAllister Editorial Fellowship. |
Duncan is a journalist and author of six books, and a television and radio producer and correspondent. He is also director of the Center for Life Science Policy at UC Berkeley. He is the chief correspondent of NPR’s Biotech Nation, and a commentator for NPR’s “Morning Edition”. Duncan is a Contributing Editor to Portfolio Magazine and writes the “Natural Selection” column for Portfolio.com. He wrote the international bestseller Calendar: Humanity’s Epic Struggle to Determine a True and Accurate Year (Harper-Collins/Avon), published in 19 languages. He has been a Contributing Editor to Wired, Discover, and MIT Technology Review. He has written for Life, Harper’s, Atlantic Monthly, Smithsonian, Fortune, USA Today, and others. Duncan was a special producer and correspondent for ABC’s Nightline; a producer for Discovery Television; and a correspondent for NOVA on PBS. Duncan has won numerous awards, including the prestigious AAAS Magazine Journalism award. He is the founder and editorial director of The BioAgenda Institute, an independent life science policy think-tank. He is a member of the San Francisco Writer’s Grotto. He lives in San Francisco, California.
Garreau is the author of "Radical Evolution: The Promise and Peril of Enhancing Our Minds, Our Bodies – and What It Means to Be Human," published in 2005 by Doubleday. A long-time reporter and editor for The Washington Post, he is now a fellow of The New America Foundation, and is the Lincoln Professor of Law, Culture and Values at Arizona State University, where he heads The Prevail Project : Wise Governance for Challenging Futures. He has served as a fellow at the University of Cambridge, the University of California at Berkeley and George Mason University, and is an affiliate of the University of Oxford's James Martin 21st Century School. He is a member of Global Business Network, the pioneering scenario-planning organization, and is the troll of a small forest in the foothills of Virginia’s Blue Ridge.
Grose co-edited Sydney University's student newspaper in 1974 and was a regular contributor to the Australian edition of Rolling Stone during the 1970s and '80s. After stints in television journalism and small business, he came to Canberra in 1988 to join the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Australia's major publicly funded research organization. He later served as a ministerial media adviser in the portfolios of primary industry and resources, treasury, transport and communications, and trade. He has been the science and technology editor of The Canberra Times since 1994 and was computing editor from 1996 to 2002. He also is a writer for Australasian Science and produces a daily e-mail bulletin in the sciences, education and related areas as Science Media's correspondent in the Federal Parliamentary Press Gallery.
Gunn was labeled the "Grand Dame of Tech Talk" by Wired magazine. Gunn, a popular commentator on life in the technology age, is best known as the host of National Public Radio's "TechNation: Americans & Technology," as well as for a weekly column on Knight-Ridder's SiliconValley.com. On her weekly radio program, Guests have ranged from business leaders like Amazon.com's Jeff Bezos to political and cultural figures such as Sen. John McCain and former First Lady Rosalynn Carter to top scientists and science writers, including Sir Francis Crick and Stephen Jay Gould. She is regularly asked to speak on a range of topics, including the impact of cyberspace on society, economic opportunities on the Internet, and her experience as a woman in the fields of science and technology. A former NASA scientist and engineer, Gunn has served as a member of the Awards Selection Committee for the Space Technology Hall of Fame and is currently on the board of directors of the Tech Museum of Innovation. She holds a doctorate in mechanical engineering from Purdue University and a master's degree in computer science, as well as a technical patent in human nutrition. 
Hassler has more than 20 years of experience as a science and technology editor and journalist. Her previous positions include serving as editor of the journal Nature Biotechnology, editor at The Neurosciences Institute of Rockefeller University and associate editor at The Sciences Magazine. A member of the IEEE, Hassler has been an adjunct professor in the science and environmental writing program at New York University’s School of Journalism and an adjunct professor in the department of molecular biology at the University of Miami School of Medicine. 
Leach earned her doctorate at the University of Pittsburgh in the rhetoric of science program. She has taught science communication at Imperial College, University of London, the University of Pittsburgh, and now convenes the Science Communication Program at the University of Queensland in Australia. She is the editor of Social Epistemology and has been a contributing editor on a number of science and technology studies research collections. Her research interests include the rhetorical features of scientific arguments, knowledge mediation and mediators, and the interaction of audiences for science in new media environments. She is the author of Valuing Communication in Science and Science Mediated. 
Mandavilli was US News editor of the now-defunct BioMedNet News before joining Nature Medicine. Her work has been featured in National Public Radio’s Science Friday, BBC News and Medscape, among others. She has a graduate degree in science journalism from New York University; she also completed four years of graduate school in biochemistry at the University of Wisconsin in Madison but, as with many science journalists, left without a doctorate when she realized she wanted to write instead.
Kevin Maney is an independent journalist, author and consultant. His latest book is Trade-Off: Why Some Things Catch On, and Others Don't, published in September 2009 by Broadway Books. He is a contributor to The Atlantic, Fortune, Fast Company and ABC News Now's "Ahead of the Curve." For 22 years, Maney wrote about technology for USA Today.
Moran is a freelance science journalist with more than 25 years of experience. She is the UK correspondent of BioWorld and senior editor of ScienceBusiness. She was formerly the managing editor of Nature and deputy editor of Computer Weekly. She also is a long-term contributor to the Financial Times, writing mainly on information technology. Moran has written for many other publications, including the Wall Street Journal, the Economist, Nature Medicine and Nature Biotechnology.
Morrow came into science writing through the academic route. He holds a doctorate in genetics from the University of Washington and did post-doctoral studies in Italy and Philadelphia. Morrow held faculty positions at University of Kansas and Texas Tech University, morphing into a science writer serendipitously. After getting his start in the 1980s writing reviews of biotechnology meetings for trade papers, he expanded his literary efforts into various scientific technological areas. Morrow also writes commentaries on social/scientific issues facing the society, including the war on cancer, the debate over the theory of evolution and global climate change. He has written several books, industry reports and around 150 articles for the trade press. Morrow said his experience in Italy started a lifelong love affair with Europe, and he travels there several times a year to cover the biotechnology scene. He and his wife share an ancient Italianate Victorian townhouse with a large ecosystem of plants and animals.
Originally a chemist, geochemist and science teacher, Dr. Pockley (Oxford DPhil) became Australia’s pioneering science correspondent on appointment in 1964 to lead science programs on radio and TV for the Australian Broadcasting Commission. The Science Unit he founded is still a specialized unit in the ABC (now a corporation). With 45 years of involvement in the media, research and universities, Pockley is Australia’s most experienced communicator to the public of science and technology. Since leaving the ABC, he has contributed to a wide range of print and broadcast media on science issues and is currently senior correspondent for Australasian Science magazine. Among his other credits, he has had two long stints as the Australia and New Zealand correspondent for Nature journal and has been science editor for The Sun-Herald newspaper. He reports for Physics World and has specialized in reporting and analyzing science policy. Pockley was the first head of public affairs for the University of New South Wales, a member of communications committees of the Australian Academy of Science and has been a council member of the National Science and Technology Centre (Questacon), visiting fellow at the Centre for the Public Awareness of Science in the Australian National University Canberra, science writer in residence (visiting scholar) in the University of Sydney and William Evans Visiting Fellow in the University of Otago, New Zealand. He runs courses in communication skills. 
Van, a freelancer, was a science reporter for the Chicago Tribune for
more than 25 years, and he continues to uncover and explain mysteries 
Peter Winter has more than 25 years of experience as a scientist, journalist and editor in the biotechnology and life sciences sectors. Educated in biochemistry and psychology, he received a BSc. (Special Hons.) from the University of London, in the United Kingdom. He worked in cancer research and the pharmaceutical industry before devoting his career to scientific journalism. He was founder and editor of Canadian Biotech News, a weekly newsletter that has been serving the industry for more than 19 years. Canadian Biotech News was acquired by Burrill & Company, San Francisco in 2005 and has since been renamed the Burrill Canadian Biotech News. Winter also edits The Burrill Report, which analyzes the business and financial progress of the biotechnology sector. 
Young is a writer and senior editor for The Chronicle of Higher Education, where he leads the paper's coverage of information technology. In his more than 10 years at The Chronicle, he has been involved with efforts to use new technology at the newspaper, most recently helping to create a blog on education technology. His freelance work has appeared in The New York Times and other publications. He earned a bachelor's degree from Princeton University and a master's degree in communication, culture and technology from Georgetown University.