Gareth Cook
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Born | (1969-09-15) September 15, 1969 (age 54) Ann Arbor, Michigan, U.S. |
Occupation | journalist |
Notable credit | 2005: Pulitzer Prize-winner |
Website | http://garethcook.net |
Gareth Cook (born September 15, 1969) is an American journalist and book editor. He was awarded a Pulitzer Prize in 2005 for “explaining, with clarity and humanity, the complex scientific and ethical dimensions of stem cell research.”[1] He is the founder and Editor in Chief of the Verto Literary Group, "an editorial consulting studio that works with authors, agents, and publishers to bring important stories and ideas to life."[2] Cook was a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine,[3] the series editor of The Best American Infographics and the editor of Mind Matters, Scientific American's neuroscience blog. His writing has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The Boston Globe, Wired, and Scientific American.
Career
Cook graduated from Brown University in 1991 with degrees in Mathematical Physics and International Relations. He was an assistant editor at Foreign Policy, a scholarly journal based in Washington, DC. He then worked as a reporter at U.S. News & World Report, and then as an editor at the Washington Monthly. He was the news editor of the alternative weekly The Boston Phoenix from 1996 to 1999. In 1999, he started at The Boston Globe, and worked for seven years as the paper's science reporter, covering a variety of topics, including biology, physics, paleontology, archeology, the role of women in science and scientific fraud. He was one of the founders of The Boston Globe's Ideas section, and then served as its editor from 2007 to 2011. He is now a freelance editor.
His stories have twice appeared in Best American Science and Nature Writing: "The Autism Advantage," from the New York Times Magazine, and “Untangling the Mystery of the Inca,” from Wired. He wrote a story arguing that Japan did not surrender at the end of World War II because of the atomic bomb.
Awards
- Pulitzer Prize (2005)[1]
- National Academies Communication Award (2005)[4]
- Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Ocean Science Journalism Award (2005)[5]
Personal life
He lives in Jamaica Plain, Mass., with his wife, Amanda, and his two sons, Aidan and Oliver. In 2003 he revealed that he is dyslexic.[6]
References
- ^ a b "Pultizer Prize Winners". Pulitzer.org. Retrieved 23 November 2021.
- ^ "Verto Literary". Verto Literary. Retrieved 2024-07-01.
- ^ "The New York Times Magazine - Masthead". The New York Times. March 2011. Retrieved 2016-07-14.
- ^ "The National Academies | News | Academies Announce 2005 Communication Award Winners". 27 November 2008. Archived from the original on 2008-11-27. Retrieved 23 November 2021.
- ^ "News Release : Boston Globe, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Journalists to be Honored by WHOI : Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution". Archived from the original on 2011-06-09. Retrieved 2009-09-29.
- ^ Gareth Cook (2003-09-28). "Life with Dyslexia". The Boston Globe. Retrieved 2007-07-27.
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- Jon Franklin (1985)
- Staff of The New York Times (1986)
- Jeff Lyon & Peter Gorne (1987)
- Daniel Hertzberg & James B. Stewart (1988)
- David Hanners, William Snyder & Karen Blessen (1989)
- David A. Vise & Steve Coll (1990)
- Susan C. Faludi (1991)
- Robert S. Capers & Eric Lipton (1992)
- Mike Toner (1993)
- Ronald Kotulak (1994)
- Leon Dash & Lucian Perkins (1995)
- Laurie Garrett (1996)
- Michael Vitez, April Saul & Ron Cortes (1997)
- Paul Salopek (1998)
- Richard Read (1999)
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- Eric Newhouse (2000)
- Staff of the Chicago Tribune (2001)
- Staff of The New York Times (2002)
- Staff of The Wall Street Journal (2003)
- Kevin Helliker & Thomas M. Burton (2004)
- Gareth Cook (2005)
- David Finkel (2006)
- Kenneth R. Weiss, Usha Lee McFarling & Rick Loomis (2007)
- Amy Harmon (2008)
- Bettina Boxall & Julie Cart (2009)
- Michael Moss & Staff of The New York Times (2010)
- Mark Johnson, Kathleen Gallagher, Gary Porter, Lou Saldivar & Alison Sherwood (2011)
- David Kocieniewski (2012)
- Staff of The New York Times including David Barboza, Charles Duhigg, David Kocieniewski, Steve Lohr, John Markoff, David Segal, David Streitfeld, Hiroko Tabuchi & Bill Vlasic (2013)
- Eli Saslow (2014)
- Zachary R. Mider (2015)
- T. Christian Miller & Ken Armstrong (2016)
- International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, McClatchy & Miami Herald (2017)
- Staff of The Arizona Republic & Staff of USA Today Network (2018)
- David Barstow, Susanne Craig & Russ Buettne (2019)
- Staff of The Washington Post (2020)
- Ed Yong (2021)
- Andrew Chung, Lawrence Hurley, Andrea Januta, Jaimi Dowdell and Jackie Botts (2021)
- Natalie Wolchover & Staff of Quanta Magazine (2022)
- Caitlin Dickerson (2023)
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