Michael D. Lemonick
freelance journalist, writer "Eye on Science" blog, Time.com
mlemonick@aol.com | (212) 522-2746
Fellow for Best Practices: Covering Science in Cyberspace
Michael D. Lemonick spent 21 years at Time magazine, where he wrote 50 cover stories on science, medicine and the environment before stepping down in January as a senior science writer. He is now a freelance writer and contributor to Time and Time.com, where he continues to write the “Eye on Science” blog. He also writes for Discover magazine and is currently working on his fourth book, a scientific biography of William Herschel. In addition, he is teaching a course at Princeton on the interaction between science and the media and will be teaching a course in journalistic ethics at New York University starting in May. His awards include Overseas Press Club’s Whitman Bassow Award for international environmental reporting (2001); American Institute of Physics Science Writing Award for “Other Worlds” (1999); American Association for the Advancement of Science Award for magazine writing (1987 and 1990); “Maxwell” award for best magazine article of the year, Dog Writers of America (1994) and the National Arbor Day Foundation Media Award (1987). Lemonick has an A.B. in economics from Harvard College and an M.S. in journalism from Columbia University.
