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Michael Brooks
Michael Brooks is a senior features editor at New Scientist magazine in London, handling the magazine's physics, math, and technology features. Before joining New Scientist five years ago, he wrote freelance for many publications, including the UK's Guardian, Observer, and Independent newspapers, and edited a book on quantum computing. His interest in issues of science, religion, and culture stems from his involvement in a church in his hometown of Lewes in the south of England, and time spent teaching physics to schoolchildren in West Africa.
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Dan Fagin
Dan Fagin has been the environment writer at Newsday since 1991. His most recent awards include the 2003 AAAS Science Journalism Award and NASW Science-in-Society Award, for a series about cancer epidemiology. Fagin was a principal member of two reporting teams that were finalists for the Pulitzer Prize: in 1994 for stories about pesticides and breast cancer risk and in 2004 for coverage of the causes of the Northeastern blackout. He is the co-author of the book Toxic Deception and an adjunct professor at New York University, as well as a past president and current board member of the 1,400-member Society of Environmental Journalists. A 1985 graduate of Dartmouth, he previously covered politics and government for Newsday and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune.
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Cathy Lynn Grossman
Cathy Lynn Grossman is a reporter for USA Today, where she established the coverage of religion, spirituality, and ethics for the largest paper in the United States. After graduating from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University, she became a hard news reporter for the Miami Herald, where she worked for 17 years, covering stories from local politics to crime to international news. Following a lifelong fascination with true believers, and with the visions and values that shape human choices and actions, she studied religion and American culture on a fellowship at the University of Michigan before joining USA Today in 1989.
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Barbara Bradley Hagerty
Barbara Bradley Hagerty has been the religion correspondent for National Public Radio since January 2003, reporting on the intersection of faith and politics, law, science, and culture. Before that, she was the Justice Department correspondent. She was the lead correspondent covering the investigation into the September 11th attacks. Her reporting was part of NPR’s coverage that earned the network the 2001 Peabody and Overseas Press Club awards. In her capacity as religion correspondent, she received the 2004 Religion Newswriters Association award for radio reporting. Before coming to NPR in 1995, she worked at the Christian Science Monitor and as senior Washington correspondent for Monitor Radio. She has published articles in the Los Angeles Times Sunday Magazine, London Times, and Vogue.
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John Horgan is a freelance journalist and author. A senior writer at Scientific American from 1986 to 1997, he has also written for the New York Times, Washington Post, Time, Newsweek, Science, London Times, New Republic, Discover, and Slate, among other publications. His books include The End of Science (1996); The Undiscovered Mind (1999); and Rational Mysticism: Dispatches from the Border Between Science and Spirituality. He was twice honored with the AAAS Science Journalism Award, in 1992 and 1994, and in 1993 he received the NASW Science-in-Society Award.
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George Johnson writes about science for the New York Times from Santa Fe, New Mexico, and is winner of the 1999 AAAS Science Journalism Award. His books include Fire in the Mind: Science, Faith, and the Search for Order and Strange Beauty: Murray Gell-Mann and the Revolution in 20th-Century Physics. His seventh book, Miss Leavitt's Stars, will be published in June by Norton. A graduate of the University of New Mexico and American University, his first reporting job was covering the police beat for the Albuquerque Journal. He is now co-director of the Santa Fe Science-Writing Workshop.
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Kristina Kendall
Kristina Kendall is a staff producer for ABC News, 20/20, where she has produced more than fifty pieces, many of them taking a skeptical look at conventional wisdom, government, and the media. She received the Paul Mongerson Prize for Investigative Reporting for a piece she did on media hype, and the Michael DeBakey Journalism Award for a segment that she produced on animal rights extremists, titled Give Me a Break. She was also recognized by the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences for her role in ABC’s coverage of September 11th. She graduated from Carleton College with honors in 1998 with a degree in economics.
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Martin Redfern
Martin Redfern is a senior producer in the BBC Radio Science Unit, where he has worked for most of the last 25 years. He joined the BBC as a studio manager after graduating from University College London, where he studied geology. He has spent time as a science producer in BBC TV and as science news editor for BBC World Service. Most of his work now is on science feature programs for Radio 4 and World Service, where he enjoys pushing the boundaries of science. He has also written extensively on science for magazines and newspapers and, more recently, popular science books. In quiet moments he enjoys the natural world and especially the small corner of it behind his home in Kent.
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John Timpane
John Timpane is the Commentary Page editor for the Philadelphia Inquirer. He also writes unsigned editorials and contributes essays to the paper’s Sunday Ideas section. He came to the Inquirer in 1997, after 16 years as a teacher of English at various colleges. He has a bachelor’s degree in English from the University of California at Irvine and a Ph.D. in English and Humanities from Stanford. Throughout his undergraduate, graduate, and scholarly career, he wrote op-ed and perspective pieces for magazines and newspapers, and he had a flourishing freelance writing career. Among his many awards are the James K. Batten Award for Excellence in Civic Journalism from the Pew Center for Civic Journalism, 2000, and the Association of Opinion Page Editors Award for Best Series, 2004.
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Shankar Vedantam
Shankar Vedantam is a national correspondent writing about science and human behavior for the Washington Post. He previously worked at the Philadelphia Inquirer, Knight-Ridder’s Washington Bureau, and New York Newsday. Vedantam has a master’s degree in journalism from Stanford University and an undergraduate degree in electronics engineering. He is interested in the history of conflict over the theory of evolution, the changes over time of religious theories concerning the creation of the universe, and the effects of religious faith on health. He has written about the interplay between neuroscience and spirituality, an area he would like to explore further.
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