NICHOLAS ST.

FLEUR
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Experience NPR Science Desk, editorial intern June. 2014 Aug. 2014
Writing daily stories for NPRs health blog, Shots, and food blog, The Salt, and contributing to the science
coverage on radio programs, such as Morning Edition and All Things Considered.

The San Jose Mercury News, science reporting intern Jan. 2014 May 2014
Wrote 10 bylined enterprise and news stories for the major daily newspaper serving the California Bay Area,
circ. 600,000; Contributed to the regional desks coverage of the California drought.
Produced five A1 stories, including one about how lush, green golf courses in the Bay Area prepare to turn
brown in order to conserve water during a statewide drought.

The Monterey County Herald, general assignment intern Oct. 2013 - Dec. 2013
Wrote 12 bylined stories for the major daily newspaper serving Monterey County, CA., circ. 23,800.
Produced five A1 stories, including one on the government shutdowns impact on local Antarctic researchers.

Brookhaven National Laboratory, news reporting intern Jun. 2013 - Aug. 2013
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.
Produced a press release about a new technique for observing electron movement within plastic solar cells.

Science Magazine, news intern Jun. 2012 - Aug. 2012
Wrote 11 bylined articles for Science magazines daily news website, ScienceNOW, and produced two articles
for the weekly print edition of Science magazine, circ. 130,000; estimated readership 1 million.
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 Apr. 2012 - Mar. 2013
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.

Journalism Organization Student Memberships
! National Association of Black Journalists ! National Association of Science Writers


Skills 650+ Twitter Followers ! Proficient in: ! Final Cut Pro ! Audacity !Drupal ! WordPress !InDesign


Awards 2014 New York Times Student Journalism Institute Fellow, The New York Times
Selected as one of 26 NABJ student members to attend a two-week reporting boot camp hosted by the NYT.

2013 Science Writing Scholar, National Academies 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 ten national recipients of a NASW travel grant.
2012 Student Science Journalism Award Recipient, Society for Neuroscience
Awarded the undergrad journalist travel grant in a national competition to attend the annual SfN conference.

Featured on The SA Incubator Blog Scientific American
Profiled on Scientific Americans Q&A series with young and up-and-coming science & health journalists.


Education University of California, Santa Cruz Candidate June 2014
Certificate, Science Communication Program

Cornell University, Ithaca, New York Aug. 2009 - May 2013
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