Michael Specter (born 1955) is an American journalist who has been a staff writer, focusing on science and technology, at The New Yorker since September 1998. He has also written for The Washington Post and The New York Times. Specter initially covered local news at The Washington Post in 1985, then became a national science reporter for the Post and finally New York City bureau chief. In 1991, Specter transferred to the Times, where from 1994 to 1998 he was based in Moscow. In 1995, he was appointed co-chief of the Times Moscow bureau, and while in Russia he covered the war in Chechnya, the 1996 Russian presidential elections, and the declining state of Russian health care among other stories. In 1998, he became a roving correspondent based in Rome covering topics as varied as Europe's demographic crisis, Michaelangelo's Florentine Pietà and the spread of AIDS in Africa.
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Awards
In 2002, Specter won the A.A.A.S. Science Journalism Award[1]. He has also twice received the Global Health Council's Annual Excellence in Media Award- for his piece about AIDS in India, “India's Plague” (12/17/01) and for one about AIDS and the population crisis in Russia ,“The Devastation,“ (10/11,04).
Personal
Specter is a son of Howard and Eileen Specter. He was previously married to Alessandra Stanley, now a television critic for The New York Times[2]. They have one daughter, Emma. Specter is a 1977 graduate of Vassar College.
Notes
- ^ AAAS 2002 Science Journalism Awards recipients
- ^ " Michael Specter Is Wed To Alessandra Stanley." The New York Times, 24 April 1988.
