NICHOLAS ST.

FLEUR

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Experience Scientific American, online reporting intern September December 2014
Will write news stories about scientific research, produce front-of-the-book print articles, and contribute to
the SciAm diversity in science blog, Voices; print circ. 460,000; 3.88 million unique online visitors per month.

National Public Radio - Science Desk, editorial intern June August 2014
Wrote eight posts for NPRs health blog, Shots; global health and development blog, Goats and Soda; and
food science blog, The Salt; 3.1 million unique online viewers per month.
Blogged about how dramatic World Cup soccer matches may trigger heart attacks in fans, and about a
Kenyan artist who transforms discarded flip-flops into colorful, hand-carved sculptures of Africas wildlife.
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The San Jose Mercury News, regional desk intern January May 2014
Wrote 10 bylined enterprise and news stories for the major daily newspaper serving the California Bay Area,
circ. 610,000; Contributed to the regional desks coverage of the California drought.
Produced five A1 stories, including one about the sustainable practices of a Monterey abalone farm that
grows an endangered delicacy in a dim, wooden cavern hidden beneath a fishermens wharf.

The Monterey County Herald, general reporting intern October December 2013
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, communications intern June August 2013
Wrote seven bylined feature articles about U.S. Department of Energy research, including a piece about
transporting a 17-ton, 50 foot-wide electromagnet off site for a cross-country trip to Fermilab in Batavia, IL.

Science Magazine, science news intern June August 2012
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.
Moderated two live chats for ScienceLive on invasive species and the use of prosthetics in the Olympics,
and recorded a podcast on synthetic jellyfish and Neanderthal extinction theories.

The Cornell Daily Sun, science editor April 2012 - March 2013
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.


Skills 700+ Twitter Followers ! Proficient in: ! WordPress ! Drupal ! Final Cut Pro ! Audacity ! InDesign

Memberships ! National Association of Science Writers ! National Association of Black Journalists


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 NYT.

2013 Science Writing Scholar, National Academies 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 a 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 September 2013 June 2014
Graduate Certificate, Science Communication Program

Cornell University, Ithaca, New York August 2009 May 2013
B.S. Biological Sciences; Minor in Communications



References Scott Hensley, Shots Host, NPR ! shensley@npr.org ! (202) 513-2437
Ken McLaughlin, Regional Editor, The San Jose Mercury News ! kmclaughlin@mercurynews.com ! (408) 920-5552
David Grimm, Online News Editor, Science ! dgrimm@aaas.org ! (202) 326-7024