Clark Boyd
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Clark Boyd is an award winning journalist and correspondent in pubilc radio. Currently, he covers technology and science stories for PRI's The World. He canvasses the globe in search of the latest global technology news. He is also the host and curator of The World's Technology podcast -- the first ever podcast from a national program in public radio. See History of Podcasting for more. The pieces are usually not focused on gadgets but on the people who shape, and are being shaped by, those gadgets and gizmos. In 2006-07 Clark was a Knight Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
In 2006, Boyd and three other correspondents for Public Radio International's "The World," were named recipients of the 2006 The American Society for Microbiology (ASM) Public Communications Award for a 1-hour radio program devoted to international news and culture, Their 4-part series, "The Forgotten Plague: Malaria," examined malaria's grip on the world's poorest regions and aired October 24-27, 2005. The other correspondents honored were David Baron, Katy Clark and Orlando de Guzman.
In addition to radio, Boyd has also been an occasional contributor to Frontline World, the WGBH investigative journalism program focused on international issues.
Boyd started on The World as a Researcher back in 1996, and immediately realized that radio journalism wasn't the worst possible way to make a living. After all, he did sell office furniture in Portland, Oregon for a while. Boyd says he'd like his epitaph to be taken from a critique frequently noted on his elementary school report cards: "Inclined to Mischief."
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