Alan Boyle
{{short description|American journalist}}
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Alan Boyle is an American journalist specializing in science and technology news. He worked for msnbc.com and NBC News Digital as science editor from 1996 to 2015.{{cite book|title=A Field Guide for Science Writers: The Official Guide of the National Association of Science Writers|pages=90|editor=Deborah Blum|others=Mary Knudson, Robin Marantz Henig|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2005|isbn=978-0-19-517498-4}} In 2015, he became aerospace and science editor for GeekWire.{{Cite news|url=https://www.geekwire.com/2015/veteran-journalist-alan-boyle-joins-geekwire-as-aerospace-and-science-editor/|title=Veteran journalist Alan Boyle joins GeekWire as aerospace and science editor|date=2015-11-05|work=GeekWire|access-date=2018-05-31|language=en-US}} Boyle is also a past president of the Council for the Advancement of Science Writing.{{Cite web|url=http://casw.org/users/alan-boyle|title=Alan Boyle {{!}} Council for the Advancement of Science Writing|website=casw.org|language=en|access-date=2018-05-31}}
Career
Boyle runs a virtual curiosity shop covering physical sciences, space exploration, paleontology, among many other interests of his. He joined NBC News Digital in 1996, and went on to GeekWire in 2015. He has maintained a blog called [https://cosmiclog.com/ Cosmic Log], since 2002. During his career in journalism, he has worked in Cincinnati, Spokane, and Seattle.{{cite web|title=Alan Boyle - Technology & science|url=https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna10912485|work=NBC News|date=6 February 2006 |access-date=14 May 2013}}
Honors and awards
He has received recognition from the American Association for the Advancement of Science in the form of the 2002 AAAS Science Journalism Award.{{cite web|title=MSNBC science editor is visiting writer|year=2008|author=Terry Devitt|publisher=University of Wisconsin–Madison|url=http://www.news.wisc.edu/15079|access-date=2009-01-12| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20090110163414/http://www.news.wisc.edu/15079| archive-date= 10 January 2009 | url-status= live}} He has also won awards from the National Academies, the National Association of Science Writers, the Society of Professional Journalists, the Space Frontier Foundation, IEEE-USA, the Pirelli Relativity Challenge and the CMU Cybersecurity Journalism Awards program.
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External links
- {{C-SPAN|105777}}
- https://cosmiclog.com/
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Category:American male journalists
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