Maggie Koerth-Baker

Maggie Koerth-Baker
Born 1981
Kansas, United States
Occupation
  • Author
  • blogger
Notable works
  • Before the Lights Go Out: Conquering the Energy Crisis Before It Conquers Us

Maggie Koerth-Baker (born 1981) is an American science journalist. She is a senior science editor at FiveThirtyEight and was previously a science editor at Boing Boing and a monthly columnist for The New York Times Magazine. Koerth-Baker is the author of the 2012 book Before the Lights Go Out: Conquering the Energy Crisis Before It Conquers Us.

Background

Born in Kansas, Koerth-Baker now lives in Minneapolis with her husband.[1] Koerth-Baker studied journalism and anthropology at the University of Kansas.[2]

Career

In 2009, Koerth-Baker co-authored the book Be Amazing: Glow in the Dark, Control the Weather, Perform Your Own Surgery, Get Out of Jury Duty, Identify a Witch, Colonize a Nation, Impress a Girl, Make a Zombie, Start Your Own Religion with Will Pearson and Mangesh Hattikudur, the co-founders of Mental Floss.[3] The book was described as "a tongue-in-cheek self-improvement guide".[3] Koerth-Baker was an assistant editor at Mental Floss.[4]

She later joined Boing Boing, where she specialized in science blogging and was known for her ability to explain science coherently and understandably while keeping it interesting.[5][6] A piece Koerth-Baker wrote for Boing Boing in the wake of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster explaining nuclear power plant operations was featured in the anthology The Best Science Writing Online 2012.[7]

In June 2012, Koerth-Baker suffered a miscarriage. She wrote about her experiences with the social expectations and medical regulation surrounding abortions and miscarriage in a series of blog entries.[8][9][10]

Beginning in August 2012, Koerth-Baker wrote "Eureka", a monthly column for The New York Times about research of interest to the layperson at the intersection of science, technology, and culture.[11][3][12] She has also contributed to Discover, Popular Science, New Scientist, Scientific American, and National Geographic.[13][3]

In 2012, Koerth-Baker published Before the Lights Go Out: Conquering the Energy Crisis Before It Conquers Us, a book about the complexity of energy systems in the United States, the roadblocks to change, and the possibility of doing things differently.[14]

In 2016 Koerth-Baker began working for FiveThirtyEight as a senior science editor.[15]

Awards

In June 2014, Koerth-Baker was named one of two Nieman-Berkman Fellows in journalism innovation at Harvard University.[16] In 2017, she won the American Meteorological Society's Award for Distinguished Science Journalism in the Atmospheric and Related Sciences.[17]

Carl Zimmer has called her "one of the most innovative science writers at work today."[13]

References

  1. ↑ Tom Vandyck (April 9, 2012). "Q&A with Maggie Koerth-Baker". Midwest Energy News. Retrieved December 10, 2012.
  2. ↑ Frank Jossi (October 10, 2012). "Q&A: Author dissects issues with the electric grid". Finance & Commerce. Retrieved December 10, 2012.
  3. 1 2 3 4 "Who is Maggie Koerth-Baker?". Archived from the original on 2012-06-22.
  4. ↑ "Maggie Koerth-Baker". Society of Professional Journalists. Retrieved December 10, 2012.
  5. ↑ Kyle Niemeyer (April 7, 2012). "Why you should read the book Before the Lights Go Out". Ars Technica. Retrieved December 10, 2012.
  6. ↑ Alyssa Battistoni (May 5, 2012). "Boing Boing Editor Makes Energy Policy an Illuminating Read". Mother Jones. Retrieved December 10, 2012.
  7. ↑ Deborah Blum (September 18, 2012). "The Best Science Writing Online 2012". Knight Science Journalism. Retrieved December 10, 2012.
  8. ↑ Koerth-Baker, Maggie. "The only good abortion is my abortion". boingboing. Retrieved 17 April 2013.
  9. ↑ Koerth-Baker, Maggie. "My miscarriage, my abortion". boingboing. Retrieved 17 April 2013.
  10. ↑ Koerth-Baker, Maggie. "I don't deserve better healthcare than you". boingboing. Retrieved 17 April 2013.
  11. ↑ Lindgren, Hugo. "Introducing Maggie Koerth-Baker". New York Times. Retrieved 16 April 2013.
  12. ↑ Chris O'Shea (August 15, 2012). "Maggie Koerth-Baker Named Monthly Columnist for New York Times Magazine". Fishbowl NY. Retrieved December 10, 2012.
  13. 1 2 Piper Klemm (May 1, 2012). "Piper Promotes: BSR Spring Seminar featuring Maggie Koerth-Baker, May 2, 2012". Berkeley Science Review. Retrieved December 10, 2012.
  14. ↑ Maryn McKenna (July 15, 2012). "Superbug Summer Books: Before the Lights Go Out". Wired. Retrieved December 10, 2012.
  15. ↑ "Maggie Koerth-Baker". FiveThirtyEight. Retrieved 2016-04-10.
  16. ↑ "2015 Nieman-Berkman Fellows named". Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard. June 30, 2014. Retrieved 2014-11-24.
  17. ↑ AGU (25 August 2017). "Honoring Earth and Space Scientists". Retrieved 2018-03-06.
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