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

Contact

Timothy M. Beardsley,
Editor-in-Chief, BioScience

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