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Seth Mnookin
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Seth Mnookin

Seth Mnookin is a contributing editor at Vanity Fair and a former senior writer for Newsweek, where he covered media, politics, and popular culture. His writing has appeared in The Washington Post, New York magazine, and many other publications. He is the author of The Panic Virus: A True Story of Medicine, Science, and Fear; Feeding the Monster: How Money, Smarts, and Nerve Took a Team to the Top and Hard News: The Scandals at The New York Times and Their Meaning for American Media. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.

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The Panic Virus will be released on January 03, 2012 in Trade Paperback
Jan 03, 2012
The Panic Virus is now available in Trade Paperback
Jan 03, 2012
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Learn 3 of the Biggest Myths About Vaccines
Nov 14, 2011
The Panic Virus will be released on January 11, 2011 in Hardcover, eBook
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The Panic Virus is now available in Hardcover, eBook
Jan 11, 2011
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‘At Fenway’ singer Brian Evans now working on Red Sox book
Boston Globe, May 3, 2013
...titled “The Green Monsters — A Fan’s Perspective of Red Sox Management.” (Not to be confused with Seth Mnookin’s “Feeding the Monster: How Money, Smarts, and Nerve Took a Team to the Top.”) Is Evans calling Sox owners John Henry and Tom...
WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENTS' WEEKEND EDITION: Shock guest addition -- GOP DANGER SIGNS IN SENATE RECRUITMENT -- RETHINKING TWITTER: 'People used to write more intelligently than they speak'
Politico, April 27, 2013
...McCarthy’s office, is 30 (Laura Reed, Joe Brettell) ... Michael Crittenden ... HyperVocal's Lee Brenner ... Vanity Fair contributor Seth Mnookin ... Dana Milbank (h/ts Patrick Gavin) ... Connor Walsh, G.W. alumnus and Deputy Digital Director for Leader...
Aglitter in the Net – Readings from April 2013, week 3
Wired News, April 21, 2013
...journalists chasing them happened to contain two journalists I know: One was the veteran and excellent science journalist Seth Mnookin, who . The other was a journalism student just shy of graduation — young, hungry, a bit skeered, given the situation,...
New Ellen Waterston Fund at NOW
Bend Bulletin, November 9, 2012
...private gifts. The festival has hosted such noteworthy authors and poets as Ted Kooser, Timothy Egan, Anne Lamott, Seth Mnookin, Pam Houston, Benjamin Percy and, this year, Jean M. Auel, for writing workshops, lectures, a gala dinner and two nights of...
Winning stories from science writers
NBCNews.com, September 13, 2012
...handed out on Oct. 27 at the ScienceWriters2012 meeting in Raleigh, N.C. Here are the winners: Book: Seth Mnookin for "The Panic Virus," which delves into the controversy over a research paper alleging that the measles-mumps-rubella vaccine might...
Lanier Library’s book lovers meet first Saturday of every month
Tryon Daily Bulletin, September 7, 2012
...by Charles Duhigg. Alaskan Travels by Edward Hoagland. Escape from Camp 14 by Blaine Harden. Panic Virus by Seth Mnookin. I’m Feeling Lucky: Confessions of Google Employee 59 by Douglas Edwards. Violinist’s Thumb by Sam Kean. Biography/...
Just Read It: Deborah Blum
Capital Times, August 27, 2012
...detection. Here, Blum chooses three books that speak to the drama science creates. 1. “The Panic Virus” by Seth Mnookin (Simon & Schuster, paperback, 2012) In a year we’ve seen a comeback of infectious diseases such as whooping cough and measles,...
The Most Expensive Investment Research is Free
Green Faucet, June 6, 2013
...the following segment to the reactions of the modern doomsday gurus: I think one of the clearest was Seth Mnookin’s analysis of Lehrer’s retelling of psychologist Leon Festinger’s famous original story of “cognitive dissonance,” based on...
The Real Reason Kids Aren't Getting Vaccines
Care2, May 27, 2013
...believe the shots can cause autism and other serious problems. In a recent Parade magazine piece [1], reporter Seth Mnookin, author of The Panic Virus: A True Story of Medicine, Science, and Fear [2], pointed out that vaccine resisters tend to cluster in...
The Real Reason Kids Aren't Getting Vaccines
Mother Jones, May 27, 2013
...immunized against catastrophic childhood diseases because they believe the shots can cause autism and other serious problems. , reporter Seth Mnookin, author of , pointed out that vaccine resisters tend to cluster in places "where parents are often...
Forget Jenny McCarthy. This shot scandal is much scarier.
Mother Jones, May 27, 2013
...immunized against catastrophic childhood diseases because they believe the shots can cause autism and other serious problems. , reporter Seth Mnookin, author of , pointed out that vaccine resisters tend to cluster in places "where parents are often...
Talk about the end of the world with Annalee Newitz and Seth Mnookin
Io9, May 14, 2013
...Remember: How Humans Will Survive a Mass Extinction. She'll be in conversation with MIT science journalism professor Seth Mnookin, author of The Panic Virus. And with you! Join us in a conversation about mass extinction, and whether humanity can really...
‘At Fenway’ singer Brian Evans now working on Red Sox book
Boston Globe, May 3, 2013
...titled “The Green Monsters — A Fan’s Perspective of Red Sox Management.” (Not to be confused with Seth Mnookin’s “Feeding the Monster: How Money, Smarts, and Nerve Took a Team to the Top.”) Is Evans calling Sox owners John Henry and Tom...
Journalists Discuss Impact of Social Media on Recent Coverage
Harvard Crimson, May 2, 2013
...where I’m writing in third-person,” Abel said. “The story that was written was shaped through my tweets.” Seth Mnookin, co-director of MIT’s Graduate Program in Science Writing, said that Twitter’s timestamps made his coverage of the...