William Broad

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William Broad
Emmy Award
Websitewww.nytimes.com/by/william-j-broad

William J. Broad (born March 7, 1951) is an American

science journalist, author and a Senior Writer at The New York Times.[2]

Education

Broad earned a master's degree from the

University of Wisconsin in 1977.[3]

Career

Broad is the author or co-author of eight books, including Germs: Biological Weapons and America's Secret War (Simon & Schuster, 2001) which was a number-one New York Times Best Seller. His other titles include Betrayers of the Truth: Fraud and Deceit in the Halls of Science (co-written with Nicholas Wade, Simon & Schuster, 1982), Teller's War: The Top-Secret Story Behind the Star Wars Deception (Simon & Schuster, 1992), The Universe Below: Discovering the Secrets of the Deep Sea (Simon & Schuster, 1997), and The Science of Yoga: The Risks and the Rewards (Simon & Schuster, 2012). His books have been translated into more than a dozen languages. His work focuses on the social repercussions of science.[3]

In 2009, he received criticism for an article on the sustainability of the blue grenadier fish from representatives of the New Zealand fishing industry.[4]

Awards

Broad has won two shared

PBS Nova documentary Bioterror won a News and Documentary Emmy Award; it detailed the threat of bioterrorism and featured the work of Broad and his fellow co-authors of Germs.[7] In 2005 he and New York Times colleague David E. Sanger were Pulitzer finalists in the Explanatory Reporting category for their aggressive reporting and lucid writing that cast light on the shadowy process of nuclear proliferation".[8] In 2007, he shared a DuPont Award (with the New York Times team, Investigation Discovery and Canadian Broadcasting Corporation) from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism for the documentary, Nuclear Jihad: Can Terrorists Get the Bomb?[9]

Publications

Reviews

Some of Broad's works are reviewed in:

References

  1. ^ Broad, William J. (September 2018). "Microwave Weapons Are Prime Suspect in Ills of U.S. Embassy Workers". The New York Times. Retrieved September 1, 2018.
  2. ^ William Broad at Library of Congress, with 10 library catalog records
  3. ^ a b About the Author, William J. Broad.
  4. ^ Gaines, Richard (September 22, 2009), "New York Times' report on food fish raises New Zealand industry's ire", Gloucester Daily Times
  5. ^ "Explanatory Journalism". The Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved 2013-11-10.
  6. ^ "National Reporting". The Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved 2013-11-10.
  7. ^ https://web.archive.org/web/20170810053010/http://cdn.emmyonline.org/news_23rd_winners.pdf
  8. ^ "2005 Finalists". The Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved 2013-10-31.
  9. ^ "William J. Broad". The New York Times. Retrieved August 12, 2019.
  10. PMID 7008199
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