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Prof. Seth Mnookin
Ford International Career Development Professor of Science Writing
Director, Graduate Program in Science Writing
Primary DLC
Comparative Media Studies/Writing
MIT Room:
14N-420
(617) 324-1868
smnookin@mit.edu
http://sethmnookin.com/
Research Summary
Mnookin's most recent book, The Panic Virus: The True Story Behind the Vaccine-Autism Controversy, won the National Association of Science Writers 2012 “Science in Society” Award and the New England chapter of the American Medical Writers Association’s Will Solimene Award for Excellence. He is also the author of the 2006 New York Times bestseller Feeding the Monster: How Money, Smarts, and Nerve Took a Team to the Top, which chronicles the challenges and triumphs of the John Henry-Tom Werner ownership group of the Boston Red Sox. His first book, 2004′s Hard News: The Scandals at The New York Times and Their Meaning for American Media, was a Washington Post Best Book of the Year. Since 2005, Seth has been a contributing editor at Vanity Fair, where he’s written about the American media presence in Iraq, Bloomberg News, and Stephen Colbert. In 2002 and 2003, he was a senior writer at Newsweek, where he wrote the media column “Raw Copy” and also covered politics and popular culture. His blog on science, medicine, and media is part of the Public Library of Science (PLOS) Blog Network. His work has appeared in numerous publications, including The New Yorker , New York, Wired, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, Spin, Slate, and Salon.com. A former music columnist for The New York Observer, he began his journalism career as a rock critic for the now-defunct webzine Addicted to Noise. He graduated from Harvard College in 1994 with a degree in History and Science, and was a 2004 Joan Shorenstein Fellow at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government.
Recent Work
Books
Publication date:
October 31, 2012
Books
Prof. Seth Mnookin
The Panic Virus: A True Story of Medicine, Science, and Fear
Related Faculty
Sandra Rodriguez
Visiting Scholar
Ms. Angela Chang
Research Affiliate
Prof. William Uricchio
Professor of Comparative Media Studies