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Ed Yong
Yong in 2015
Born	Edmund Soon-Weng Yong 17 December 1981 (age 40) Malaysia
Nationality	British
Alma mater	University of Cambridge (BA, MA) University College London (MPhil)
Known for	Not Exactly Rocket Science (blog); I Contain Multitudes (book); Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting (2021)
Awards	Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting
Scientific career
Institutions	The Atlantic
Thesis	Searching for the human resolvase (2005)
Website	edyong.me

Edmund Soon-Weng Yong (born 17 December 1981) is a Malaysian-born British science journalist. He is a staff member at The Atlantic, which he joined in 2015.^[1] In 2021 he received a Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting for a series on the COVID-19 pandemic.

Earlier in his career, Yong created and wrote the now-defunct blog Not Exactly Rocket Science, which was published as part of the National Geographic Phenomena blog network.

Contents

• 1Education
• 2Career
• 3Personal life
• 4Bibliography
• 5References
• 6External links

Education[edit]

Edmund Soon-Weng Yong was born 17 December 1981 in Malaysia.^[2][3][4] At the age of 13 Yong immigrated to the UK in 1994. He became a British citizen in 2005.^[5]

Yong was awarded Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts degrees in natural sciences (zoology) from Pembroke College, Cambridge^[6] in 2002.^[7] He completed postgraduate study at University College London (UCL), where he was awarded a Master of Philosophy (MPhil) degree in 2005 in biochemistry.^[2]

Career[edit]

Yong's approach to popular science writing has been described as "the future of science news",^[8] and he has received numerous awards for his work. Yong received the National Academies Communication Award from the National Academy of Sciences in 2010 in recognition of his online journalism, then part of Discover's blog group.^[9] In the same year he received three awards from ResearchBlogging.org, which supports online science journalism focused on covering research that has already been published in peer-reviewed scientific journals that can be adapted for a wider public audience.^[10] In 2012 he received the National Union of Journalists (NUJ) Stephen White Award.^[11] His blog received the first Best Science Blog award from the Association of British Science Writers in 2014.^[12]

Yong's interactions with other science bloggers and engagement with those who have commented on his blog have served as case studies for academic work in media studies.^[13]

His work also has been published by Nature,^[14] Scientific American,^[15] the BBC,^[16] Slate,^[17] The Guardian,^[18] The Times,^[7] New Scientist,^[19] Wired,^[20] The New York Times, and The New Yorker.^[7][21]

In September 2015, Yong joined The Atlantic as a science reporter.^[22] In August 2020, he received the Council for the Advancement of Science Writing's Victor Cohn Prize for Excellence in Medical Science Reporting, citing his reporting on the COVID-19 pandemic and his commitment to including marginalized and underrepresented voices in his writing.^[23] In June 2021 he received a Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting for a series on the COVID-19 pandemic.^[24]

Personal life[edit]

Yong is married to Liz Neeley, a science communicator.^[25][26] They occasionally collaborate on speaking engagements.^[27][25]

Yong lives in London and Washington, D.C.^[3][28]

Bibliography[edit]

This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. (December 2016)

• Yong, Ed (2016). I contain multitudes: the microbes within us and a grander view of life. Random House.
• — (March 2018). "A Cultural Leap at the Dawn of Humanity. Sketch".
• — (July 2019). "The last of its kind". Dispatches. Sketch. The Atlantic. 324 (1): 24–27.
• — (March 2020). "How the Pandemic Will End". Health. The Atlantic.
• — (April 2020). Why the Coronavirus Is So Confusing. Health. The Atlantic.
• — (May 2020). America's Patchwork Pandemic Is Fraying Even Further. Health. The Atlantic.
• — (August 2020). Immunology Is Where Intuition Goes to Die. Health. The Atlantic.
• — (August 2020). Long-Haulers Are Redefining COVID-19. Health. The Atlantic.
• — (September 2020). America Is Trapped in a Pandemic Spiral. Health. The Atlantic.
• — (September 2020). How the Pandemic Defeated America. Health. The Atlantic.
• — (October 2020). What Strength Really Means When You're Sick. Health. The Atlantic.
• — (November 2020). ‘No One Is Listening to Us’. Health. The Atlantic.
• — (January 2021). How Science Beat the Virus. Health. The Atlantic.
• — (June 2022). An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us. Random House.

References[edit]

1. ^ "The Atlantic Expands Its News Team and Adds Other New Roles". theatlantic.com. The Atlantic. 23 July 2015. Archived from the original on 29 June 2016. Retrieved 31 July 2015.
2. ^ Jump up to:^a b Yong, Edmund Soon-Weng (2005). Searching for the human resolvase (MPhil thesis). University of London. OCLC 926124477.
3. ^ Jump up to:^a b "I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life by Ed Yong". The Royal Society. Retrieved 3 April 2020.
4. ^ Yong, Ed [@edyong209] (17 December 2012). "Thanks for birthday wishes, loads of people" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
5. ^ Yong, Ed [@edyong209] (24 June 2016). "I am an immigrant. I've lived in the UK for 22 years and been a citizen for 11 of those and I've never felt as unwelcome as I do now" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
6. ^ "Ed Yong (Pembroke 1999) wins Pulitzer Prize". Alumni. Retrieved 17 November 2021.
7. ^ Jump up to:^a b c Yong, Ed (2014). "Ed Yong, Science Writer". Archived from the original on 20 March 2014.
8. ^ Rennie, John (3 February 2011). "Why Ed Yong is the Future of Science News (and You Could Be, Too)". PLoS Blogs. PLOS. Archived from the original on 5 March 2016. Retrieved 31 July 2015.
9. ^ "Revenge of the whippersnappers: Ed Yong wins National Academies Communication Award". Science. 14 October 2010. Retrieved 24 December 2019.
10. ^
    • "Research Blogging Awards 2010". ResearchBlogging.org. Retrieved 31 July 2015.
    • Munger, David (2010). "Exactly, Ed Yong". SEED Magazine. Archived from the original on 29 March 2010. Retrieved 31 July 2015.
11. ^ "Ed Yong wins NUJ Stephen White science award". National Union of Journalists. 28 June 2012. Retrieved 31 July 2015.
12. ^ "Winners". Association of British Science Writers. Retrieved 31 July 2015.
13. ^
    • Shanahan, M.-C. (8 September 2011). "Science blogs as boundary layers: Creating and understanding new writer and reader interactions through science blogging". Journalism. 12 (7): 903–919. doi:10.1177/1464884911412844. S2CID 144586150.
    • Fahy, D.; Nisbet, M. C. (8 September 2011). "The science journalist online: Shifting roles and emerging practices". Journalism. 12 (7): 778–793. doi:10.1177/1464884911412697. S2CID 145363279.
    • Elmer, Greg (2015). Elmer, Greg; Langlois, Ganaele; Redden, Joanna (eds.). Compromised Data: From Social Media to Big Data. Bloomsbury Publishing USA. pp. 251–63. ISBN 9781501306501.
14. ^ * Yong, Ed (2011). "Friendly bacteria move in mysterious ways". Nature. doi:10.1038/news.2011.614.
    • Yong, Ed (2013). "Memory molecule dethroned". Nature. doi:10.1038/nature.2013.12139. S2CID 100651884.
    • Yong, Ed (2013). "Bigger groups mean complex cultures". Nature. doi:10.1038/nature.2013.14158. S2CID 179399201.
    • Yong, Ed (2015). "Microbiology: Here's looking at you, squid". Nature. 517 (7534): 262–264. doi:10.1038/517262a. PMID 25592518.
    • Yong, Ed (2014). "First response: Race against time". Nature. 510 (7506): S5. doi:10.1038/510S5a. PMID 24964025. S2CID 4389785.
15. ^ Yong, Ed (2013). "Armor against Prejudice". Scientific American. 308 (6): 76–80. doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0613-76. PMID 23729075.
16. ^ Yong, Ed (2014). "The amateur geneticist who surprised science". bbc.com. BBC. Archived from the original on 9 March 2016.
17. ^ "Ed Yong". Slate Magazine. Retrieved 24 December 2019.
18. ^ "Ed Yong Guardian Profile". theguardian.com. London: The Guardian. Archived from the original on 10 April 2016.
19. ^ Yong, Ed (2015). "Bugs on patrol". New Scientist. 226 (3024): 40–43. doi:10.1016/S0262-4079(15)30523-6.
20. ^ Yong, Ed (19 March 2013). "How the Science of Swarms Can Help Us Fight Cancer and Predict the Future". Wired. ISSN 1059-1028. Retrieved 24 December 2019.
21. ^ Yong, Ed. "Not Exactly Rocket Science". National Geographic. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 31 July 2015.
22. ^ Yong, Ed [@edyong209] (26 August 2015). "Starting at The Atlantic next Tuesday! And first piece for them is going up tomorrow. Because reasons" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
23. ^ "Ed Yong awarded 2020 Victor Cohn Prize for medical science reporting | Council for the Advancement of Science Writing". casw.org. Retrieved 24 August 2020.
24. ^ LaForme, Ren (11 June 2021). "Here are the winners of the 2021 Pulitzer Prizes". Poynter.
25. ^ Jump up to:^a b "The Atlantic's Ed Yong visits UW as fall science writer in residence". news.wisc.edu. 26 September 2017. Retrieved 31 October 2019.
26. ^ Neeley, Liz (6 June 2019). "Liz Neeley on Instagram: "This guy... AND #elephants!!! . . . . #zimbabwe #waterhole #honeymoon #victoriafalls #nofilter"". Instagram. Archived from the original on 24 December 2021. Retrieved 31 October 2019.
27. ^ Shelton, Jim (25 September 2019). "Neeley and Yong extol the power of narrative in science writing". news.yale.edu. Retrieved 31 October 2019.
28. ^ "Ed Yong". HarperCollins. Retrieved 3 April 2020.

External links[edit]

• Longform podcast, December 23, 2020.
• Zombie roaches and other parasite tales, TED talk
• All Stories by Ed Yong at The Atlantic.
• Appearances on C-SPAN