Donald McNeil, Jr.
Donald Gerard McNeil, Jr. (born February 1, 1954 San Francisco, California) is a science and health journalist for the New York Times.[1]
Biography
He graduated summa cum laude from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1975 with a bachelor’s degree in rhetoric. He started at the Times in 1976 as a copy boy.[2] He left in 1979 to teach journalism at Columbia University while studying history. From 1995 to 2002, he was a foreign correspondent based in South Africa and France. In 2013, he was featured in an acclaimed documentary about AIDS drugs, Fire In the Blood.[3]
He lives in Brooklyn. He has two daughters and a stepson.
Awards
- 2013 - Third Place, Beat reporting, American Association of Health Care Journalists[4]
- 2012 – Third Place, Beat reporting, American Association of Health Care Journalists[5]
- 2007 – Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award[6]
- 2006 – Overseas Press Club award
- 2002 – First place in foreign reporting from the National Association of Black Journalists
References
- ↑ McNeil, Donald G. (2012-06-10). "Donald G. McNeil Jr. – The New York Times". Topics.nytimes.com. Retrieved 2012-11-28.
- ↑ "Basel Institute on Governance: Philanthropy in Global Health: Speakers". Baselgovernance.org. Retrieved 2012-11-28.
- ↑ Bale, Miriam (2013-09-05). "'Fire in the Blood' Spotlights AIDS in Africa". The New York Times.
- ↑ http://healthjournalism.org/awards-winners.php?Year=2013
- ↑ http://healthjournalism.org/about-news-detail.php?id=163#.UjPAmrxcTKR
- ↑ http://www.rfkcenter.org/node/108 Archived January 8, 2011, at the Wayback Machine.
External links
- "Donald McNeil", Charlie Rose
- http://www.fnsreporting.com/Portfolio/Technical%20Documents/sacredheart/images/mcneil.pdf
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