Sarah Wild
Sarah Wild is a South African science journalist and author. In November 2017 she became the first African to win a AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Award.[1][2]
Wild is the author of Searching African Skies: The Square Kilometre Array and South Africa’s Quest to Hear the Songs of the Stars (2012)[3] and Innovation: Shaping South Africa through Science (2015),[4][5] which was published in Afrikaans as Innovasie: Hoe wetenskap Suid-Afrika vorm.[6]
Wild was named the Siemens pan-African Profile Awards for science journalism winner in 2013,[7] and received the Dow Technology and Innovation Reporting award at the 2015 CNN Multichjoice African Journalist of the Year awards.[8]
Wild has written for Scientific American,[9] The Guardian, The Atlantic,[10] Undark Magazine, AfricaCheck and Mail & Guardian.[11]
References
[edit]- ^ "Winners of the 2017 AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Awards | Science Journalism Awards". sjawards.aaas.org. Retrieved 15 November 2017.
- ^ "Winners of the 2017 AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Awards". EurekAlert!. Retrieved 15 November 2017.
- ^ Wild, Sarah (2012). Searching African Skies. Jacana Media. ISBN 9781431404728.
- ^ Wild, Sarah (2015). Innovation: Shaping South Africa Through Science. Pan Macmillan. ISBN 9781770104389.
- ^ Hart, Tim G.B.; Development, Economic Performance and; Council, Human Sciences Research; Pretoria; Africa, South; Anthropology, Department of Sociology and Social; University, Stellenbosch; Stellenbosch; Africa, South (1 July 2016). "From the ocean to outer space – and almost everything in between". South African Journal of Science. 112 (7/8): 2. doi:10.17159/sajs.2016/a0160. ISSN 0038-2353.
- ^ Wild, Sarah (1 September 2015). Innovasie: Hoe wetenskap Suid-Afrika vorm (in Afrikaans). LAPA Uitgewers. ISBN 9780799376692.
- ^ Staff Reporter. "M&G's Sarah Wild scoops Africa's top science journalism award". The M&G Online. Retrieved 15 November 2017.
- ^ "African journalism shines at awards | The Media Online". themediaonline.co.za. 14 October 2015. Retrieved 15 November 2017.
- ^ "Stories by Sarah Wild". Scientific American. Retrieved 15 November 2017.
- ^ Wild, Sarah. "Sarah Wild". The Atlantic. Retrieved 15 November 2017.
- ^ "Sarah Wild - 10th World Conference of Science Journalists, San Francisco 2017". 10th World Conference of Science Journalists, San Francisco 2017. Retrieved 15 November 2017.
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