Covering COVID-19

Apoorva Mandavilli is the 2019 winner of the Victor Cohn Prize for Excellence in Medical Science Reporting. She is also the founding editor-in-chief of Spectrum, an award-winning news site on autism science that grew an audience of millions, where she led the team for 13 years. Ms. Mandavilli joined the New York Times in May 2020, after two years as a regular contributor.

Faye Flam is a journalist who writes a science-based opinion column for the Bloomberg news service. She won the 2020 Pulliam Fellowship for Editorial Writing, which came with a grant she used to launch a weekly podcast called “Follow the Science.” Ms. Flam has been a staff writer for Science, where she covered physics and cosmology, as well as The Philadelphia Inquirer, where she covered everything from criminal forensics to human origins to statistical errors in science. 

Prior to becoming NPR’s Global Health and Development Correspondent in 2012, Jason Beaubien spent four years based in Mexico City covering Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean. In 2002, he joined NPR after volunteering to cover a coup attempt in the Ivory Coast. Over the next four years, Mr. Beaubien worked as a foreign correspondent in sub-Saharan Africa, visiting 27 countries on the continent.

Jon Cohen is a widely published magazine writer and the author of four nonfiction books on scientific topics. Mr. Cohen is a senior correspondent with Science and has also written for The New Yorker, Atlantic Monthly, New York Times Magazine, BuzzFeed, Smithsonian, Technology Review, Outside, Slate, Surfer, and many other publications.