NICHOLAS ST.

FLEUR

scifleur@gmail.com Science Journalist (631) 384-3619
www.linkedin.com/in/nstfleur www.nicholasstfleur.com twitter: @scifleur


Experience Scientific American, online reporting intern 9/14 12/14
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 editorial intern 6/14 8/14
Wrote 15 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.

The San Jose Mercury News, regional reporting intern 1/14 6/14
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 10/13 12/13
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, news intern 6/13 9/13
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 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.
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 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.


Skills Twitter Followers: 750+ Proficient in: WordPress ! Drupal ! Final Cut Pro ! Audacity ! InDesign ! AP Style


Professional Affiliations: 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 NYT.

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 5/13
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