Clay Calvert is the Brechner Eminent Scholar in Mass Communication and Director of the Marion B. Brechner First Amendment Project at the University of Florida. He formerly served as the John and Ann Curley Professor of First Amendment Studies at the Pennsylvania State University, where he also co-directed the Pennsylvania Center for the First Amendment and served as interim dean of the Schreyer Honors College. 
Clay has authored or co-authored more than 115 law journal articles on freedom of expression-related topics

He is co-author of a leading media law textbook and of the book Voyeur Nation: Media, Privacy, and Peering in Modern Culture.

Clay received his law degree from the University of the Pacific's McGeorge School of Law and then earned a Ph.D. in communication from Stanford University, where he also completed his undergraduate work with a B.A. in communication.

Charles Q. Choi is a science reporter who has written for Scientific American, The New York Times, Wired, Science, Nature, The San Diego Union-Tribune, Newsday, Popular Science and National Geographic News, among others. For his work, he has hunted for mammoth DNA in Yukon, faced gunmen in Guatemala, entered the sarcophagus housing radioactive ruins in Chernobyl and looked for mammal fossils in Wyoming based on the guidance from an artificial intelligence. In his spare time, Charles has traveled to all seven continents, including scaling the side of an iceberg in Antarctica, investigating mummies from Siberia, snorkeling in the Galapagos, excavating ancient Maya ruins in Belize, climbing Mt. Kilimanjaro, camping in the Outback and avoiding thieves near Shaolin Temple.

David Corcoran is the editor of Science Times, The New York Times’s weekly science section. He joined The Times in 1988 and has worked in a variety of positions, including education editor and deputy Op-Ed editor. He came to The Times after a 19-year career at The Record in North Jersey, where he was editor of the editorial pages. In 1976-77 he was a journalism fellow at Stanford University. As a writer, he reviewed restaurants in New Jersey from 2000 to 2010 for the Sunday Times. His poetry has been published in Podium and Barrow Street.

Science Times guidelines for freelancers (from David Corcoran):
Unfortunately, opportunities for new freelancers are quite limited. Most material in the section
comes from staff writers or regular contributors. We do look at articles and essays on spec, and
we make very occasional assignments for news features that catch our eye.
Here are a few things to keep in mind.
• The article should be newsy and timely. It should tell readers something they don’t already
know, and within the first few paragraphs it should answer the question “Why are you telling
me this now?”
• Topics can range widely over science and health, but bear in mind that important news
developments, including major findings reported in science and medical journals, are likely to
be covered by our staff writers. The best outside articles are those that make a reader (in this
case an editor) sit up and take notice, by calling attention to a surprising or underreported
development or trend.
• Articles generally run 500 to 1,500 words. Science Times pays $1 a word on publication.
Queries or pitches (one at a time, please) should run no more than 300 words.
• The pitch or cover letter should indicate whether the news has already been reported — in
The Times, the mainstream press (including Web sites, TV and radio) or scientific journals. A yes
answer does not necessarily mean we’re not interested, but we need to know what kind of
exposure the story has had.

Contact:
Queries and finished articles on medicine and health should be sent by e-mail to Mike Mason at
mmason@nytimes.com.
On other science topics, to David Corcoran at corcoran@nytimes.com.

Nadia Drake is a science journalist at Wired. Before that, she was an intern and then on staff at Science News, covering astronomy. She has completed internships at Nature, the San Jose Mercury News, and the Santa Cruz Sentinel. Her work has also appeared online at Science and Scientific American, and in print at New Scientist, Nature Medicine, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and Santa Cruz Magazine. In 2012, she won the D.C. Science Writers Association's Newsbrief Award. Nadia is a 2011 graduate of the U.C. Santa Cruz Science Communication program, and earned her Ph.D. in genetics from Cornell University. She loves reporting from the field, and has traveled to such places as China, Alaska, the Channel Islands, and California's redwood forests in pursuit of stories.

Rose Eveleth is a producer, designer, writer and animator based in Brooklyn. She switched from studying krill as a scientist to studying scientists who study krill as a journalist. Now, she tries to explain sciencey stuff for places like The New York Times, Scientific American, Nautilus, The Story Collider, Minute Earth, TED-Ed and OnEarth. She's a regular blogger for Smithsonian magazine's newest online endeavor — Smart News, an editor of all things animated at TED Education, and the special media manager at Nautilus, a new digital magazine about science, culture and philosophy. In her spare time she makes weird collages, bikes, and day dreams about hanging out with a pack of foxes.

Dan Ferber is an award-winning science journalist. As a freelancer, he wrote for Reader’s Digest, Popular Science, and New Scientist and was a contributing correspondent for Science magazine. As well, he coauthored — with Paul Epstein, MD, of Harvard Medical School — Changing Planet, Changing Health, a book that offers groundbreaking coverage of the public-health impacts of climate change. He recently started working as a science writer for the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, Harvard University in Boston, Massachusetts. He is also a Tai chi instructor.