AIBS Media Award
The AIBS Media Award, established in 1995, recognizes outstanding reporting on biology to a general audience. The award is limited to non-technical journalism, including print and broadcast media.
The 2010 AIBS Media Award competition will open later in 2009.
Applicants may submit a single contribution or a series focusing on a single topic. Stories must have been published or broadcast between 16 December 2008 and 15 December 2009.
Recipients:
2009 Chip Rowe, Playboy Magazine; Honorable Mention, Martin Enserink, Science
2008 Michelle Nijhuis, High Country News; Honorable Mention, Brendan Maher, Nature
2007 Kenneth Weiss and Usha Lee McFarling, Los Angeles Times / David Baron, The World
2006 Margaret Wertheim, LA Weekly / Daniel Grossman, Radio Netherlands
2005 Tom Meersman / Diane Toomey
2004 Sarah Staples / Daniel Grossman
2003 Richard Stone, Science / Robin White, RadioCollege
2002 Gary Polakovic, Los Angeles Times
2001 Mark Robichaux, Wall Street Journal / Jim Metzner, Pulse of the Planet
2000 Douglas Birch, Baltimore Sun
1999 Lynne Jensen, John McQuaid, Mark Schleifstein, The Times-Picayune / Bari Scott, Jude Thilman, SoundVision Productions
1998 John Carey, Naomi Freundlich, Julia Flynn (with Neil Gross and Joan OC. Hamilton), Business Week
1997 Carl Zimmer, Discover
1995 Rosie Mestel, Discover
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Timothy M. Beardsley,
Editor-in-Chief, BioScience
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