Editor's Night: An Open Session of Prof Claudia Dreifus

Ten top science journalists talk about what they do and how they got to do it in an open session of SUMA Professor Claudia Dreifus' science writing class.

Speakers/Presenters:

Moderator: Claudia Dreifus, Lecturer; prize winning science journalist.

Brooke Borel is an articles editor at Undark. Her writing has appeared in Scientific American, BuzzFeed News, Popular Science, the Atlantic online and other publications.

Sewell Chan, Executive Editor, Columbia Journalism Review. Sewell is the editor in chief of The Texas Tribune. He was previously an editor and reporter at the Los Angeles Times, The New York Times and The Washington Post.

David Grimm is an award-winning journalist and the Online News Editor of Science, the world’s leading journal of science news and scientific research.

Sarah Laskow, is a senior editor at The Atlantic, where she oversees the Science section.

Thomas Lin founded Quanta Books, a Pulitzer Prize-winning, editorially independent science and math magazine published by the Simons Foundation. Lin was the publication's first editor-in-chief.

Vernon Loeb is the executive editor of Inside Climate News. He joined ICN from The Atlantic, where he was politics editor, after a newspaper career as a reporter, foreign correspondent and editor.

Eric Roston, Bloomberg News Sustainability Editor. Eric is an award-winning journalist who has spent more than 15 years covering climate change in technology, finance, business, and government. He has been writing stories and making graphics and video at Bloomberg since 2015.

Hannah Waters, Biology Editor, Quanta. Hannah is a senior biology editor at Quanta Magazine as well as a climate science writer. She has worked over 10 years in print and online media.

Lauren Young is an associate editor for health and medicine at Scientific American. She has edited and written stories that tackle a wide range of subjects, including the COVID pandemic, emerging diseases, evolutionary biology and health inequities.

This conversation will be held in person at the Butler Library, Room 203. After the moderated discussion, guests will have a chance to ask the guest speakers questions.

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