Award-winning science writer and New York Times columnist Carl Zimmer will deliver the keynote speech next week for the University of Idaho’s annual media ethics symposium.
The free event also will be livestreamed at uidaho.edu/news/ui-live.
Zimmer is a three-time winner of the American Association for the Advancement of Science’s Journalism Award, twice for his work for the New York Times and once for The Loom, a blog published by Discover Magazine and National Geographic, according to a UI news release.
His latest book, “Life’s Edge: The Search for What It Means to Be Alive,” was named a Notable Book of 2021 by the New York Times. His book “A Planet of Viruses,” originally published in 2011, was republished in 2021 with a new chapter about COVID-19.
A panel of regional journalists will discuss media coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic in Idaho and Washington in a Zoom webinar at 3:30 p.m. next Thursday, April 14, at uidaho.edu/op22
Ariel Dreher, a Report for America fellow at The Spokesman-Review of Spokane; Audrey Dutton, a senior investigative reporter for the Idaho Capital Sun of Boise; and Rachel Sun, a health care reporter for the Lewiston Tribune, Moscow-Pullman Daily News and Northwest Public Broadcasting, based in Pullman, will participate. UI School of Journalism Mass Media faculty member Caitlin Cieslik-Miskimen will moderate the panel.
The Oppenheimer Ethics Symposium, founded in 2011, is presented by the UI School of Journalism and Mass Media.
