Seth Mnookin is the co-director of MIT’s graduate program in science writing. His 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. Seth is currently a member of the FDA’s Expert Working Group on Medical Countermeasure Emergency Communication Strategies. Since 2005, he’s 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. Seth’s essays and reporting have been featured in the annual Best American Science and Nature Writing anthologies, and his journalism 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 and has also worked as a crime reporter at the Palm Beach Post, a city hall reporter at the Forward, a presidential campaign reporter at Brill’s Content, and a jack-of-all-trades at Inside.com. 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. A native of Newton, Mass., he and his wife currently live outside of Boston with their ten-year-old dog, their five-year-old son, and their three-year-old daughter. See more at: http://sethmnookin.com/bio/#sthash.fYjOqG3N.dpuf. Twitter: @sethmnookin