NICHOLAS ST.

FLEUR
scifleur@gmail.com
www.linkedin.com/in/nstfleur

Science Journalist
www.nicholasstfleur.com

(631) 384-3619
twitter: @scifleur

Experience The Atlantic, New York City assistant editor

11/14 Present
Write 50+ online news stories on a variety of science, health, and technology issues, from the near eradication
of Guinea worm in Africa, to the final moments of the Rosetta missions comet lander, Philae.
Covered New York City protests against police brutality following the non-indictment decisions in the deaths
of Michael Brown and Eric Garner; 4.2 million unique visitors per month, 17.7 million monthly page views.

Scientific American, New York City online reporting intern

9/14 10/14
Wrote five bylined stories on the Ebola outbreak in West Africa and on hospital preparedness in America;
Live-tweeted CDC briefings concerning the few Ebola cases in the United States.
Wrote a feature story detailing how taxidermists brought immortality to the beloved Galpagos tortoise,
Lonesome George; print circ. 460,000; 3.88 million unique online visitors per month.

National Public Radio, Washington D.C. science editorial intern

6/14 8/14
Wrote 20 bylined posts for NPRs health blog, Shots; global health blog, Goats and Soda; food science blog,
The Salt; and tech blog, All Tech Considered; about 3 million unique online viewers each per month.
Reported on the death of a Sierra Leone doctor who battled the Ebola outbreak in his country, and wrote a
story about how former foster care youth now receive health care coverage under the Affordable Care Act.

The San Jose Mercury News, San Jose, CA regional reporting intern

1/14 6/14
Wrote 10 bylined enterprise stories for the major daily newspaper serving the California Bay Area, circ.
610,000; Contributed to the regional desks coverage of the statewide drought.
Produced five A1 centerpiece stories, including one about the sustainable practices of an abalone farm that
grows an endangered delicacy in a wooden cavern hidden beneath a fishermens wharf.

The Monterey County Herald, Monterey, CA general reporting intern

Wrote 12 bylined stories for the daily newspaper serving Monterey County, CA., circ. 23,800.
Produced five A1 stories, including one about the government shutdowns impact on Antarctic researchers.

Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY news intern

10/13 12/13

6/13 9/13

Wrote seven bylined feature articles about U.S. Department of Energy research.

Science Magazine, Washington D.C. science news reporting intern

6/12 8/12
Wrote 11 bylined articles for Science magazines daily news website, ScienceNOW, and produced two print
articles for the weekly edition of Science, est. readership 570,400; 5.2 million unique monthly online visitors.

The Cornell Daily Sun, Ithaca, NY science editor

Skills

4/12 3/13
Managed the weekly science section of Cornell Universitys student-run daily newspaper, circ. 16,000; named
the nations top college newspaper of 2013 by the Princeton Review.
Twitter Followers: 1,650+ WordPress Drupal Final Cut Pro Audacity Live-Tweeting AP Style
Professional Groups: National Association of Black Journalists National Association of Science Writers

Awards

2014 New York Times Student Journalism Institute in New Orleans, The New York Times
Selected as one of 26 NABJ student members for a two-week reporting boot camp hosted by the Times.
2013 Science Writing Scholar, National Academy of Sciences Keck Futures Conference
Covered a nuclear energy conference as one of 12 grad student recipients of a science writing scholarship.
2013 AAAS Student Travel Fellow, National Association of Science Writers
Reported on the 2013 AAAS conference in Boston as one of 10 national recipients of an NASW travel grant.
2012 Student Science Journalism Award Recipient, Society for Neuroscience
Awarded the undergrad journalist travel grant in a national competition to cover the annual SfN conference.

Education

University of California, Santa Cruz

6/14

Graduate Certificate, Science Communication Program

Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
B.S. Biological Sciences; Minor in Communications

5/13