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Professional Development Month Closing Keynote: COVID Q&A with Apoorva Mandavilli, and DCSWA’s Newsbrief Awards
June 29, 2021 @ 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
To wrap up Professional Development Month, we’re combining a celebration with a chance to learn about reporting on COVID-19 from award-winning New York Times journalist Apoorva Mandavilli.
We’ll kick off this event with a ceremony honoring the winners of DCSWA’s 12th annual Newsbrief Awards. Then we’ll dive into a sure-to-be stimulating discussion with Apoorva Mandavilli, moderated by DCSWA board member Bruce Y. Lee. Bring your questions about all things COVID, from lessons learned about reporting on a global pandemic, to what issues science writers may expect to be tackling in the next year.
Apoorva Mandavilli is a reporter for The New York Times, focusing on science and global health. She is the 2019 winner of the Victor Cohn Prize for Excellence in Medical Science Reporting.
She is the founding editor in chief of Spectrum, an award-winning news site on autism science that grew an audience of millions. She led the team there for 13 years. She joined The Times in May 2020, after two years as a regular contributor.
Ms. Mandavilli has won numerous awards for her writing. Her work has been published in The Atlantic, Slate and The New Yorker online, and in the anthology ”Best American Science and Nature Writing.”
She co-founded Culture Dish, an organization dedicated to enhancing diversity in science journalism, and was the founding chair of the Diversity Committee for the National Association of Science Writers. Ms. Mandavilli has a Master of Arts degree in journalism from New York University and a Master of Science degree in biochemistry from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is fluent in English, Hindi, Tamil, Telugu and Kannada.
The event will be held on zoom. Register here.