Position/Organization: freelance; contributing editor, Scientific American

Christie Nicholson is a multimedia science journalist based in New York. She is a contributing editor at Scientific American where she developed and launched an online community and helped launch two video series and two audio podcasts. Currently she produces and hosts the weekly podcast 60-Second Psych and produces 60-Second Earth. She is an on-air contributor to multiple Web and TV shows that have appeared on Slate, Discovery Channel and the Science Channel. A graduate of Columbia University's School of Journalism, she co-created the 'Science of Sex,' a Web site that won two Webby Awards.

Position/Organization: executive editor, Reuters Health

Ivan Oransky, MD, is the executive editor of Reuters Health. He also teaches medical journalism at New York University’s Science, Health, and Environmental Reporting Program, and is the treasurer of the Association of Health Care Journalists. He blogs at Embargo Watch. He has served as managing editor, online, of Scientific American, deputy editor of The Scientist, and editor-in-chief of the now-defunct Praxis Post. For three years, he taught in the health and medicine track at the City University of New York’s Graduate School of Journalism.

Position/Organization: Macmillan Science

Luba Ostashevsky is editor at Macmillan Science, a popular science imprint at Palgrave Macmillan that gives a voice and platform to top scientists and journalists. Recent titles include Second Nature by animal behaviorist Jonathan Balcombe that explores the inner lives of animals; The Power of the Sea by oceanographer Bruce Parker about monstrous waves and our millennial long struggle to predict marine behavior. Upcoming titles include a book on the connection between our emotions and sleep and a new story of our evolution by the curator of the anthropology wing at the AMNH.

Position/Organization: freelance science writer

Annie Murphy Paul is a magazine journalist and book author whose
writing has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The New York
Times Book Review, Slate, Discover, and the Boston Globe Ideas
section, among other publications. A former senior editor at
Psychology Today magazine, she was awarded the Rosalynn Carter
Fellowship for Mental Health Journalism. She is also the author of The
Cult of Personality, a cultural history and scientific critique of
personality testing that was hailed by Malcolm Gladwell in the _New