Hello there!
I’m a freelance journalist and audio producer. You might know my work from National Geographic, Science Magazine, The Atlantic, or maybe NASA’s Curious Universe podcast. I mostly write about science and the environment—I love telling the stories of researchers all over the world who’ve dedicated their lives to better understanding our changing planet. I’m also into the different ways we conceptualize our relationship with the natural environment and the history and culture of science as a way of knowing.
This newsletter is my science journalism director’s (reporter’s?) cut—behind the scenes notes, interviews, photos and other tidbits that, for some reason or another, didn’t make the final draft. I’m still an early career journalist, but I’m trying to write a newsletter that I would have wanted to read when I was just starting out. I’m hoping these posts will help pull back the curtain on all the work (research, interviews, fieldwork, fact-checking) that goes into producing compelling, sound journalism—most of which readers/listeners never see. Plus, you know the word count is never long enough to get to all the good stuff...
If you’re not a journalist but enjoy science reporting (or, if I may be so bold, my reporting—on daring missions to drill ice cores in Antarctica, botanists untangling orchid roots from fungi unknown to science or that one time we shut off and re-engineered Niagara Falls) and always find yourself wanting a bit more, this is the place for you!
Catch it in your inbox some Wednesdays (but not others—I’m doing my best).
Depending on how this goes, I’m planning to also start interviewing other science journalists about their reporting for this newsletter—I have a growing list, but feel free to send over your suggestions too! Those will be exclusively for paid subscribers.
In the meantime, it’s all free—but if you’d like to support my work, I won’t say no…
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