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.
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Covering COVID-19
How Journalists Tackled the Biggest Science Story of Our Time
Wednesday, April 28, 2021, 7pm
EDT
Event Overview
Take a look at the COVID-19 pandemic through the eyes of four leading science journalists who covered the pandemic in the U.S. and around the world. They'll describe the challenges of writing about continually evolving vaccine developments and variants, of breaking down complex topics like viral spread, and of making the public aware of ever-changing health and safety precautions. They'll also discuss how they handled reporting on forecasts, how they dealt with misinformation, and what they think the future might hold for us.
What You'll Learn
- How this pandemic created unprecedented challenges for journalists
- A look into the ways in which public health directives will continue to evolve this year
- Why pandemic response and vaccine delivery has varied so greatly across the globe
- What health officials have learned from this pandemic and what they’re doing to prepare for the next one
Speakers
Apoorva Mandavilli
Health and Science Reporter
The New York Times
Health and Science Reporter, The New York Times
Faye Flam
Opinion Columnist; Host of "Follow the Science”
Bloomberg
Opinion Columnist, Bloomberg; Host of the Podcast "Follow the Science”
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.
Jason Beaubien
Global Health and Development Correspondent
NPR
Global Health and Development Correspondent, NPR
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.
Staff Writer, Science
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.
Apoorva Mandavilli
Health and Science Reporter
The New York Times
Health and Science Reporter, The New York Times
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
Opinion Columnist; Host of "Follow the Science”
Bloomberg
Opinion Columnist, Bloomberg; Host of the Podcast "Follow the Science”
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.
Jason Beaubien
Global Health and Development Correspondent
NPR
Global Health and Development Correspondent, NPR
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.
Staff Writer, Science
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.
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