Donald McNeil, Jr.

Donald Gerard McNeil, Jr. (born February 1, 1954 San Francisco, California) is a science and health journalist for The New York Times.^[1]

Biography

He graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1975 summa cum laude, with a bachelor’s degree in rhetoric. He started the Times in 1976 as a copy boy.^[2] He left in 1979, and taught journalism at Columbia University, while studying history. From 1995 to 2002, he was a foreign correspondent based in South Africa and France.

He is married and lives in Brooklyn. He has two daughters and a stepson.

Awards

• 2007 Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award ^[3]
• 2006 Overseas Press Club award.
• 2002 first place in foreign reporting from the National Association of Black Journalists

References

1. ^ http://topics.nytimes.com/topics/reference/timestopics/people/m/donald_g_jr_mcneil/index.html
2. ^ http://www.baselgovernance.org/events/past-events/philanthropy-in-global-health-2008/philanthropy-in-global-health-speakers/
3. ^ http://www.rfkcenter.org/node/108

External links

• "Donald McNeil", Charlie Rose

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