Donald G. McNeil Jr.<!-- close subHdr -->
<!-- close callout -->Donald G. McNeil Jr. is a science and health reporter specializing in plagues and pestilences. He covers diseases of the world's poor, AIDS, malaria, avian flu, SARS, mad cow disease and so on.
He also writes features and first-person pieces for other sections.
He joined the Times in 1976 as a copy boy and has been a night rewrite man, an environmental reporter, a theater columnist and an editor. From 1995 to 2002 he was a foreign correspondent based in South Africa and France and has reported from 49 countries.
During a hiatus from the Times in the 1980's, he taught journalism at Columbia University and worked at People magazine, WCBS-TV, Adweek and New York Newsday and wrote plays.
He has covered many topics, ranging from the Love Canal toxic waste scandal to bungee-jumping off Victoria Falls and Evita's premiere in Zimbabwe.
He has won several awards: For a series on patent monopolies on AIDS drugs in Africa, for a series on AIDS in one South African town, for a series on six diseases on the brink of eradication and for a series on third world cancer victims dying without morphine.
Mr. McNeil grew up in San Francisco and graduated summa cum laude from the University of California at Berkeley in 1975 with a B.A. in rhetoric.
He is married, has two grown daughters and a young stepson, and lives in Brooklyn. On weekends, he plays softball and squash; on vacation, he goes camping.
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<!-- close callout -->Donald G. McNeil Jr. is a science and health reporter specializing in plagues and pestilences. He covers diseases of the world's poor, AIDS, malaria, avian flu, SARS, mad cow disease and so on.
He also writes features and first-person pieces for other sections.
He joined the Times in 1976 as a copy boy and has been a night rewrite man, an environmental reporter, a theater columnist and an editor. From 1995 to 2002 he was a foreign correspondent based in South Africa and France and has reported from 49 countries.
During a hiatus from the Times in the 1980's, he taught journalism at Columbia University and worked at People magazine, WCBS-TV, Adweek and New York Newsday and wrote plays.
He has covered many topics, ranging from the Love Canal toxic waste scandal to bungee-jumping off Victoria Falls and Evita's premiere in Zimbabwe.
He has won several awards: For a series on patent monopolies on AIDS drugs in Africa, for a series on AIDS in one South African town, for a series on six diseases on the brink of eradication and for a series on third world cancer victims dying without morphine.
Mr. McNeil grew up in San Francisco and graduated summa cum laude from the University of California at Berkeley in 1975 with a B.A. in rhetoric.
He is married, has two grown daughters and a young stepson, and lives in Brooklyn. On weekends, he plays softball and squash; on vacation, he goes camping.
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