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Seth Mnookin
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Seth Mnookin

Seth Mnookin is a contributing editor at Vanity Fair and a former senior writer for Newsweek, where he covered media, politics, and popular culture. His writing has appeared in The Washington Post, New York magazine, and many other publications. He is the author of The Panic Virus: A True Story of Medicine, Science, and Fear; Feeding the Monster: How Money, Smarts, and Nerve Took a Team to the Top and Hard News: The Scandals at The New York Times and Their Meaning for American Media. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.

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The Panic Virus will be released on January 03, 2012 in Trade Paperback
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Time, May 23, 2012
...family. Also, read this informative article by HowStuffWorks.com writer Josh Clark for more in-depth information. On Friday, Seth Mnookin, author of The Panic Virus, which explores the cult of fear that has emerged around immunization, slammed Clark’s...
Time, May 23, 2012
...family. Also, read this informative article by HowStuffWorks.com writer Josh Clark for more in-depth information. On Friday, Seth Mnookin, author of The Panic Virus, which explores the cult of fear that has emerged around immunization, slammed Clark’s...
Discover Magazine, April 16, 2012
...Szavalitz reviews a Pulitzer-prize-winning health journalist’s weighty e-tome about bioterrorism. The Frozen Future of Nonfiction Our new editor Seth Mnookin reviews Why the Net Matters by neuroscientist David Eagleman Dazzling Material, Lackluster...
Discover Magazine, April 16, 2012
...a toxicologist � Maia Szavalitz reviews a Pulitzer-prize-winning health journalist?s weighty e-tome about bioterrorism. � Our new editor Seth Mnookin reviews Why the Net Matters by neuroscientist David Eagleman � Virginia Hughes is disappointed by...
Discover Magazine, April 16, 2012
...a toxicologist � Maia Szavalitz reviews a Pulitzer-prize-winning health journalist?s weighty e-tome about bioterrorism. � Our new editor Seth Mnookin reviews Why the Net Matters by neuroscientist David Eagleman � Virginia Hughes is disappointed by...
MIT News, March 27, 2012
...Writing, noted that this kind of integration of science into life and culture has become more common. Host Seth Mnookin, a lecturer in the science writing program, added, “I find it scary when places like The New York Times get rid of science reporters...
BusinessWeek, March 2, 2012
...could be so exciting. Decades later, the Wall Street he writes about is still recognizable.” Hard News, by Seth Mnookin “The Jayson Blair scandal happened about a month after I arrived at The New York Times, and the entire institution was basically...
BusinessWeek, March 2, 2012
...could be so exciting. Decades later, the Wall Street he writes about is still recognizable.” Hard News, by Seth Mnookin “The Jayson Blair scandal happened about a month after I arrived at The New York Times, and the entire institution was basically...
Huffington Post, February 27, 2012
...outbreaks. Beyond the avoidable loss of life that can result from declining vaccination is the issue of expense. Seth Mnookin noted that an unvaccinated U.S. traveler got sick with measles during a trip to Switzerland in 2008 and was responsible for its...
Discover Magazine, February 25, 2012
...are changes to your story demands, suggestions, or something else? More wisdom on from Amy Harmon, channelled through Seth Mnookin An open letter to Channel 4 on On cadence in writing ? . Here are five more words… with a muck-raking journalist who...
Discover Magazine, February 25, 2012
...your story demands, suggestions, or something else? More wisdom on writing long-form narratives from Amy Harmon, channelled through Seth Mnookin An open letter to Channel 4 on Big Fat Gypsy Weddings On cadence in writing – This sentence has...
CTV News, February 22, 2012
...Seth Mnookin, author of The Panic Virus (Feb. 22, 2012) ctvmontreal.ca MONTREAL — In 1998 a British doctor published a paper linking the measles vaccine to autism. The doctor's...
Minneapolis Star Tribune, February 22, 2012
...Thinking Fast and Slow, by Daniel Kahneman Pakistan: A Hard Country, by Anatol Lieven The Panic Virus, by Seth Mnookin FICTION Ghost Light by Joseph O'Connor The Cat's Table, by Michael Ondaatje The Buddha in the Attic, by Julie Otsuka Binocular Vision,...