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* 2013 - Third Place, Beat reporting, American Association of Health Care Journalists<ref>http://healthjournalism.org/awards-winners.php?Year=2013</ref>
* 2013 - Third Place, Beat reporting, American Association of Health Care Journalists<ref>http://healthjournalism.org/awards-winners.php?Year=2013</ref>
* 2012 – Third Place, Beat reporting, American Association of Health Care Journalists<ref>http://healthjournalism.org/about-news-detail.php?id=163#.UjPAmrxcTKR</ref>
* 2012 – Third Place, Beat reporting, American Association of Health Care Journalists<ref>http://healthjournalism.org/about-news-detail.php?id=163#.UjPAmrxcTKR</ref>
* 2007 – [[Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award]]<ref>http://www.rfkcenter.org/node/108 {{dead link|date=November 2012}}</ref>
* 2007 – [[Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award]]<ref>http://www.rfkcenter.org/node/108 {{wayback|url=http://www.rfkcenter.org/node/108 |date=20110108163619 }}</ref>
* 2006 – [[Overseas Press Club]] award
* 2006 – [[Overseas Press Club]] award
* 2002 – First place in foreign reporting from the [[National Association of Black Journalists]]
* 2002 – First place in foreign reporting from the [[National Association of Black Journalists]]

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Donald Gerard McNeil, Jr. (born February 1, 1954 San Francisco, California) is a science and health journalist for the New York Times.[1]

Biography

He graduated summa cum laude from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1975 with a bachelor’s degree in rhetoric. He started at the Times in 1976 as a copy boy.[2] He left in 1979 to teach journalism at Columbia University while studying history. From 1995 to 2002, he was a foreign correspondent based in South Africa and France. In 2013, he was featured in an acclaimed documentary about AIDS drugs, Fire In the Blood.[3]

He lives in Brooklyn. He has two daughters and a stepson.

Awards

References

  1. ^ McNeil, Donald G. (2012-06-10). "Donald G. McNeil Jr. – The New York Times". Topics.nytimes.com. Retrieved 2012-11-28.
  2. ^ "Basel Institute on Governance: Philanthropy in Global Health: Speakers". Baselgovernance.org. Retrieved 2012-11-28.
  3. ^ Bale, Miriam (2013-09-05). "'Fire in the Blood' Spotlights AIDS in Africa". The New York Times.
  4. ^ http://healthjournalism.org/awards-winners.php?Year=2013
  5. ^ http://healthjournalism.org/about-news-detail.php?id=163#.UjPAmrxcTKR
  6. ^ http://www.rfkcenter.org/node/108 Template:Wayback

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