Curtis Brainard
Editor, The Observatory, Columbia Journalism Review, Columbia University, New York

Curtis Brainard has covered science, environment, and medical news for Columbia Journalism Review (CJR) since 2006. In January 2008, he launched The Observatory (www.cjr.org), CJR’s first fulltime department dedicated to critically analysing science coverage in the media and the challenges facing science journalists today. The online site includes regular commentary by Mr. Brainard and other contributors on how the media covers science, the environment, medicine, and technology. Mr. Brainard’s CJR work has been cited in The New York Times, The New Republic, The Houston Chronicle and Wired, among others. He has also discussed science journalism on Al-Jazeera English, Greenwire, Sirius satellite radio, local radio stations, and at a host of meetings and conferences.