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SciWriteLabs 7.2: The New York Times’s Amy Harmon on what it means to be a science writer

By Seth Mnookin
Posted: January 11, 2012
Category: Autism, Journalism, SciWriteLabs, The New York Times, The Panic Virus | Tagged academic journals, Amy Harmon, Amy Wallace, Asperger syndrome, Boston, Catherine Lord, CDC, DNA, Eric Courchesne, Eric Fombonne, footnotes, Fred Volkmar, Gardner Museum, Gerald Fishbach, Jack Robison, Kevin Pelphrey, Kirsten Lindsmith, Los Angeles Times, Marianne English, McGill University, Michael Specter, MIT, New York-Presbyterian Hospital, NIMH, Simons Foundation, technology, The New Yorker, UC-San Diego Autism Center of Excellence, vaccines, Vanity Fair, Wired, Yale School of Medicine, Yale's Neuroscience Laboratory | 4 Comments

Kurt Anderson is back!

By Seth Mnookin
Posted: December 11, 2011
Category: Media, The New York Times | Tagged Cathy Horyn, Kurt Andersen, Vanity Fair | 1 Comment

The Kingdom and the Paywall

By Seth Mnookin
Posted: July 27, 2011
Category: Articles, Housekeeping | Tagged Arthur Sulzberger Jr., Baghdad, Hard News, New York Magazine, The New York Times, Vanity Fair | 5 Comments
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