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Ed Yong on the Craft of Science Writing and Communication
When it comes to science writing and communication, there are few writers as skilled at their craft as Ed Yong. He’s something of a science writing prodigy. His writing spans topics ranging from the microbes that inhabit our bodies and orca conservation to language genes and most recently, the current global pandemic.
In fact, Yong’s coronavirus reporting has been widely praised as some of the most well-researched, compelling, and informative coverage on the pandemic. He currently covers science as a staff writer for the Atlantic, and his work has appeared in National Geographic, Nautilus, Scientific American, Wired, Aeon, Nature, the New York Times, and more. To boot, he was also recently awarded the Victor Cohn Prize for Excellence in Medical Science Reporting for his pandemic coverage with the Atlantic.
In college, Ed studied everything from molecular biology to animal behavior and even started a Ph.D. program with the plan to…
