Four distinguished winners of the AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Award will discuss the present and future of science reporting during challenging times – a fitful global response to COVID-19, the long-standing health inequities highlighted by the pandemic, and urgent demands for more diversity in science and society.
Azeen Ghorayshi, science editor for BuzzFeed News, will be moderator. She has written for The Guardian, Wired UK, New Scientist and more, with extensive reporting on sexual harassment and gender discrimination in science.
Maggie Koerth is a senior science editor at FiveThirtyEight. She previously was a science editor at Boing Boing and monthly columnist for The New York Times Magazine.
Angela Saini is a British science journalist, broadcaster and author of two widely acclaimed books, “Superior” on the troubling return of race science and “Inferior” on science’s treatment of women.
Carl Zimmer is a weekly columnist for The New York Times and author of 13 books on science. He is a three-time winner of the AAAS Kavli award.