Ed Yong

Pulitzer Prize-Winning Journalist & Author

Ed Yong is an award-winning science journalist for The Atlantic and the bestselling author of An Immense World, which explores the extraordinary sensory worlds of animals, and I Contain Multitudes, about the amazing partnerships between animals and microbes. For his groundbreaking coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic, Ed received countless honors including the Pulitzer Prize in explanatory journalism.

Dubbed "the future of science news," Yong cares deeply about accurate, nuanced, and empathetic reporting; clear and vivid storytelling; and social equity. The British-American journalists writes about everything that is or was once alive, from the quirky world of animal behavior to the equally quirky lives of scientists, from the microbes that secretly rule the world to the species that are blinking out of it, from the people who are working to make science more reliable to those who are using it to craft policies.

Yong's latest release, An Immense World, won the Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction and appeared on 14 of 2022's top books of the year lists. He has been a pivotal voice in pandemic coverage across the globe, producing more than 50 columns with scientific updates regarding COVID-19. In his 17 years of reporting, Yong has contributed to National Geographic, the New Yorker, Wired, the New York Times, Nature, Scientific American, and other publications. His TED talk on mind-controlling parasites has been watched by 2 million people. In 2020, he was named “the most important and impactful journalist" by Poynter.