Dan Fagin ENVIRONMENTAL AND SCIENCE JOURNALIST

A science journalism professor at New York University, Dan Fagin is a

nationally prominent journalist on environmental health topics. He has twice been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, and has won both of the best-known science journalism prizes in the United States, from the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the National Association of Science Writers. He is working on his second book, and his recent publications include Scientific American, New Scientist and Harvard University’s Nieman Reports.

At NYU, Dan is an associate professor of journalism and the director of the masters-level

Science, Health and Environmental Reporting Program (SHERP), one of the oldest and best-regarded science journalism training programs in the world.

From 1991 to 2005, Dan was the environment writer for Newsday in New York, where he was a principal member of two reporting teams that were Pulitzer finalists: in 1994 for stories about pesticides and breast cancer risk, and in 2004 for coverage of the causes of the 2003 Northeast blackout. His stories about cancer epidemiology in 2003 were awarded the AAAS Science Journalism Award and the NASW Science in Society Award.

He is the co-author of Toxic Deception: How the Chemical Industry Manipulates Science, Bends the Law and Endangers Your Health (1999, Common Courage Press), which in its o

riginal hardcover edition was a finalist for the Investigative Reporters and Editors book prize in 1997. It was described by The New York Times as “the story of the triumph of a special interest over the public interest” and remains in print.

Dan is currently at work on a book that intertwines three related story lines: the history of environmental cancer epidemiology, the half-century saga of the Toms River, New Jersey, childhood cancer cluster, and current research into gene-environment interactions in cancer. Random House is scheduled to publish in the fall of 2011. He is represented by Dystel & Goderich Literary Management.

A native of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Dan received his bachelor's degree in government in 1985 from Dartmouth College, where he was the editor-in-chief and president of the college newspaper. He spent two years at the Sarasota Herald-Tribune before joining Newsday, where he covered local and state politics before assuming the environment beat.

He has been a Templeton-Cambridge Fellow in Science and Religion at the University of Cambridge, United Kingdom, and has also had fellowships at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, and the Institute of Arctic Biology in Alaska.

Dan is a former president and a proud member of the 1,500-member Society of Environmental Journalists, the oldest and largest association of journalists dedicated to improving the quality, accuracy and visibility of environmental coverage.

He lives in Sea Cliff, New York, with his wife, the legal journalist Alison Frankel, and their two daughters, Anna and Lily.