Ari Daniel Shapiro
Ari Daniel Shapiro is a freelance science journalist based in Boston, Massachusetts. Shapiro reports through various public and private media, including National Public Radio, Public Radio International, The New York Times, and Nova.[1]
Education
- Ph.D. in biological oceanography from MIT and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution[2]
- Boston College, 2001[3]
In college, Shapiro was a summer intern at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. He worked on a project with killer whales. He later got a master's degree from the University of St. Andrews in Scotland, where he studied grey seal pups.[4]
Career
In addition to his work as a reporter, Shapiro is a Senior Producer for The Story Collider, a live storytelling show.[2][5] He says that he works to achieve greater science literacy for his listeners, telling Nieman Storyboard, "That’s why I don’t like to think about dumbing something down. I think people can handle complexity. Because I think people are curious beings somewhere inside."
References
- "ADS resume 2012 04 24" (PDF). Retrieved 2019-08-30.
- "Ari Daniel: "It's so important to show stories that have hopeful threads."". Nieman Storyboard. Retrieved 2019-11-02.
- "Googled: Ari Daniel Shapiro '01". at BC. Retrieved 20 June 2019.
- "Oceanus: The Journal of our Ocean Planet". Woods Hole. Retrieved 22 September 2023.
- "Ari Daniel". The Story Collider. Retrieved 2019-11-02.