Prior to joining the Atlantic, Ed’s writing also featured in National Geographic, the New Yorker, Wired, the New York Times, Nature, New Scientist, Scientific American, and other publications. An Immense World won the Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction, and was listed as one of the top books of the year by the New York Times, the New Yorker, the Wall Street Journal, Slate, the Economist, People, Barack Obama, and more than 30 other lists. He is the author of two New York Times bestsellers- AN IMMENSE WORLD, about the extraordinary sensory worlds of other animals and I CONTAIN MULTITUDES, about the amazing partnerships between animals and microbes. He was also a two-time finalist for the National Magazine Award in public service. McGovern Award from the American Medical Writers’ Association and the AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Award for in-depth reporting. He reports for The Atlantic, and is based in Washington, DC.įor his coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic, Ed won the Pulitzer Prize in explanatory journalism the George Polk Award for science reporting the Benton Award for distinguished public service the Victor Cohn Prize for medical science reporting, the Neil and Susan Sheehan Award for investigative journalism the John P.

Ed Yong is a British-American science journalist.

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