2003 Science in Society Journalism Awards

Web journalism

Margaret A. Woodbury

“A Doctor’s Right to Choose”

Salon.com

Description:

Margaret A. Woodbury of Salon.com won in the online category for “A Doctor’s Right to Choose,” which examined the controversial procedure known as “intact dilation and extraction” to most physicians and “partial birth abortion” to its opponents. The judges said “there are few of the bells and whistles one might expect nowadays from an online news report, but the hyperlinks to in-depth resources, the invitation for feedback — and the personal approach — set this written-for-the-Web story apart from your usual ink-on-paper news article.” They added that Woodbury “manages to avoid a coldly clinical approach as well as the overheated polemics that so often characterize discussions of abortion and reproductive choice. She provides multiple perspectives of the ethics and the science, but she does not shrink from taking a point of view.”

Biography:

Margaret Woodbury currently works for Time Inc. as an editor for Health magazine. In particular, she services the Mind, Body, and Feature sections of this publication. In the past, she has worked for both general audience publications — Fitness magazine, Mother Jones magazine, the San Francisco Chronicle — as well as targeted audience publications and outlets: Washington Fax, Biotechniques publications, genetics biomedia at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.

She has done freelance work for numerous outlets, including Glamour, World Press Review, Salon.com, CBS/Healthwatch, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Bulletin and Sightstreet, an affiliate of Harvard University. Margaret combines her years as an editor and writer with her background in clinical human physiology.

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