Science Journalist Cornelia Dean to Speak at Prov Committee on Foreign Relations Meeting
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Science Journalist Cornelia Dean to Speak at Prov Committee on Foreign Relations Meeting
The meeting will take place on Wednesday, February 5 at the Hope Club in Providence.
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Dean, a science writer and the former science editor of The New York Times, as well as a former deputy Washington Bureau chief of that paper, is well known for her knowledge of coastal-erosion issues as well as other scientific matters.
In her tenure running NYT’s science-news department, members of its staff won every major journalism prize as well as the Lasker Award for public service.
She began her newspaper career at The Providence Journal.
Dean's first book, Against the Tide: The Battle for America’s Beaches, was published in 1999 and was a New York Times Notable Book of the year.
Her guide to researchers on communicating with the public, Am I Making Myself Clear?, was published in 2009.
Her most recent (2017) book is Making Sense of Science: Separating Substance from Spin.
She has taught at Brown and Harvard and lectured in many other places.
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Dean joined GoLocal LIVE with news editor Kate Nagle in 2017.
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