Gareth Cook

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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.

Bio

He was born in Ann Arbor, Michigancite web |date=2000 | url = http://www.stgeorges.edu/common/inc_newsDetail.asp?newsid=263952&L1=4&L2=1&from=| title = Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter to give talk| format = HTML | publisher = stgeorges.edu| accessdate = 2007-07-27 | last= ] 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 cite web |date=2003-09-28| url = http://www.boston.com/news/globe/magazine/articles/2003/09/28/life_with_dyslexia/| title = Life with Dyslexia| format = HTML | publisher = Boston Globe| accessdate = 2007-07-27 | last= Gareth Cook] . 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.

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