2000 Science in Society Journalism Awards

Presented Feburary 17, 2001, at the NASW reception in San Francisco

An article about the awards is available in ScienceWriters.

Book

No award given

(Please note: the book category did not exist before 2000.)

Magazine

Carol Ezzell

“Care for a Dying Continent“

Scientific American

Description and biography

Eyal Press and Jennifer Washburn

“The Kept University“

Atlantic Monthly

Description and biography

Other years’ magazine award winners

Newspaper

Kitta MacPherson

“Food Fight—What Hath Science Wrought“

Star-Ledger (Newark, NJ)

Description and biography

Other years’ newspaper award winners

Radio

Michael Tymchuk

“Kennewick Man — Bones of Contention”

Canadian Broadcasting Corp.

Description and biography

Other years’ broadcast award winners

(Please note: before 2000, the radio and television categories were combined into a single category, “broadcast.")

Television

Jon Palfreman

“What’s Up With The Weather“

WGBH-TV’s Frontline/PBS

Description and biography

Other years’ broadcast award winners

(Please note: before 2000, the radio and television categories were combined into a single category, “broadcast.")

Web

No award given

(Please note: the web journalism category did not exist before 2000.)

2000 Science in Society Journalism Awards committee

AWARD CHAIRS

• Carol Cruzan Morton, freelancer and science writer, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston
• Beryl Benderly, freelancer and book author, Washington, D.C.

SCREENING SUB-COMMITTEE

• Jennie Duschek, freelance
• Sara Finkelstein, Production Group
• Robert Finn, freelance and ScienceWriters
• Stephen Hart, freelance
• Robert Irion, freelance and Science
• David Kestenbaum, National Public Radio
• Dianne Lange, freelance
• Mary Miller, freelance and Exploratorium
• Lori Oliwenstein, freelance and USC Health Sciences
• Sidney Perkowitz, Emory University
• Charles Petit, U.S. News & World Report
• Carol Rogers, University of Maryland
• Joel Shurkin, HopkinsHealth
• Curt Suplee, National Science Foundation
• Robert Uth, National Productions and New Voyage Communications
• Gretchen Vogel, Science

SELECTION SUB-COMMITTEE

• J. Kelly Beaty, Sky and Telescope
• Larry Bernard, Schepens Eye Research Institute
• Boyce Rensberger, Massachusetts Institute of Technology/Knight Journalism Fellowships
• Richard Saltus, Boston Globe
• Carolyn Schatz, Harvard Women’s Health Watch
• Stephen Hart, freelance, advised on entry criteria for the new Web category

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