Speakers

  • Debbie Stier

    Position/Organization: senior vice president, associate publisher, and director of Digital Publishing, HarperCollins

    Debbie Stier currently has two roles at HarperCollins: Senior Vice President, Associate Publisher for HarperStudio and Director of Digital Marketing for the rest of HarperCollins. In her role as the Director of Digital Marketing for HarperCollins, she is responsible for educating and evangelizing digital trends throughout the company. @debbiestier

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  • Ed Susman

    Ed Susman is a freelance medical writer based in West Palm Beach, Florida. He began his journalism career at age 15, writing sports reports for this hometown newspaper, The Saratogian in Saratoga Springs, New York. He worked on that small upstate community daily for several years while going to college at Syracuse University. While at Syracuse, he also worked at the daily Syracuse Post-Standard.

  • Brian Switek

    Position/Organization: freelance science writer

    Brian Switek is a freelance science writer and blogger specializing in paleontology, ecology, and evolution http://brianswitek.com. In addition to writing Smithsonian magazine’s Dinosaur Tracking blog and Laelaps (formerly of ScienceBlogs.com), he has written stories for WIRED Science, the Guardian, Smithsonian, the Times of London, Eureka, and other publications. His first book – Written in Stone: Evolution, the Fossil Record, and Our Place in Nature – will be published this November by Bellevue Literary Press.

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  • Steve Tally

    Position/Organization: marketing consultant, Purdue University

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  • John Timmer

    Position/Organization: science editor, Ars Technica

    John Timmer got a Bachelor of Arts in Biochemistry from Columbia University, and a Ph.D. in Molecular and Cell Biology from the University of California, Berkeley. He's done over a decade's worth of research in genetics and developmental biology at places like Cornell Medical College and the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. John is now the Science Editor at Ars Technica, where he writes and manages the production of science content for a technology-focused news site.

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  • Michael Turner

    Position/Organization: Director of the Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics at the University of Chicago

    Michael S. Turner, Ph.D., is a cosmologist and director of the Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics at the University of Chicago. He has been a pioneer in applying the physics of elementary particles to studies of the origin and evolution of the universe. His work has focused on inflationary cosmology, the origin of elements in the Big Bang, dark matter and dark energy – a term he coined to described the mysterious force that appears to be causing an acceleration in the universe’s rate of expansion.

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  • Mitchell Waldrop

    Position/Organization: editor, Nature

    Guide to Nature News features

    Summary

    Nature’s news features section publishes timely, authoritative, impactful, compelling feature stories reported and written by journalists, about and for the research community. We welcome well thought-out pitches as well as preliminary ideas.

    SECTION A: THE BASICS

    1. What are Nature news features?

    They are long-form journalism covering all areas of science, science policy and the scientific community;

    They are written with our ‘core’ audience of working research scientists in mind;

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  • Jonathan Weiner

    Position/Organization: Maxwell M. Geffen Professor of Medical and Scientific Journalism, Columbia University

    A natural storyteller and an intrepid reporter with a gift for making cutting-edge science understandable, Jonathan Weiner is one of the most distinguished popular-science writers in the country: his books have won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. His writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, and Scientific American.

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  • Ted Weinstein

    Position/Organization: agent, Ted Weinstein Literary Management

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  • Laura Wood

    Position/Organization: FinePrint Literary Management

    With over twenty years in the publishing industry, Laura Wood was most recently Associate Publisher of Council Oak Books, an independent book publisher, and previously was Manager Merchandising for Barnes&Noble.com. Hired as the Science & Nature Editor, this position evolved into buying in the categories Science & Nature, Reference, Home & Garden, and Science Fiction & Fantasy.

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