Gareth Cook

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Gareth Cook
Birth place Flag of the United States - Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
Circumstances
Occupation journalist
Notable credit(s) 2005 - Pulitzer Prize-winner

Gareth Cook is a Pulitzer Prize winning science journalist, currently at the Boston Globe. He was awarded the 2005 Pulitzer Prize in Explanatory Reporting for his writing about the scientific, ethical and human dimensions of stem cell research.

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He was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan[1] in 1969 and graduated in 1991 from Brown University with degrees in International Relations and Mathematical Physics. Before the Boston Globe, he worked at Foreign Policy magazine, US News & World Report, the Washington Monthly and the Boston Phoenix.

In 2003 he revealed that he is dyslexic [2]. In 2007, he became the editor of the Boston Globe's Sunday Ideas section.

He now lives in Jamaica Plain, Mass., with his wife, Amanda, and his son, Aidan.[1]

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  1. ^ a b Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter to give talk (HTML). stgeorges.edu (2000). Retrieved on 2007-07-27.
  2. ^ Gareth Cook (9/28/2003). Life with Dyslexia (HTML). Boston Globe. Retrieved on 2007-07-27.