Ari Daniel Shapiro
{{short description|American journalist}}
{{about|the Boston-based reporter|the NPR general reporter and host of All Things Considered|Ari Shapiro}}
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Ari Daniel Shapiro is a freelance science journalist based in Boston, Massachusetts. Shapiro is a science reporter for National Public Radio.{{cite web |url=https://www.npr.org/people/297147967/ari-daniel |access-date=30 November 2023 |website=NPR }} He previously reported on a freelance basis for NPR, as well as Public Radio International, The New York Times, and Nova.{{cite web|url=http://aridanielshapiro.files.wordpress.com/2008/11/ads-resume-2012-04-24.pdf |title=ADS resume 2012 04 24 |publisher= |date= |accessdate=2019-08-30}}
Education
- Ph.D. in biological oceanography from MIT and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution{{Cite web|url=https://niemanstoryboard.org/stories/ari-daniel-its-so-important-to-show-stories-that-have-hopeful-threads/|title=Ari Daniel: "It's so important to show stories that have hopeful threads."|website=Nieman Storyboard|access-date=2019-11-02}}
- Boston College, 2001{{cite web |title=Googled: Ari Daniel Shapiro '01 |url=http://at.bc.edu/googledaridanielshapiro/ |website=at BC |accessdate=20 June 2019}}
In college, Shapiro was a summer intern at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. He worked on a project with killer whales. He later got a master's degree from the University of St. Andrews in Scotland, where he studied grey seal pups.{{cite web |title=Oceanus: The Journal of our Ocean Planet |url=https://www.whoi.edu/oceanus/author/ari-daniel-shapiro/ |website=Woods Hole |accessdate=22 September 2023}}
Career
In addition to his work as a reporter, Shapiro is a Senior Producer for The Story Collider, a live storytelling show.{{Cite web|url=https://www.storycollider.org/senior-producer-bios/2019/1/9/ari-daniel|title=Ari Daniel|website=The Story Collider|date=10 January 2019 |language=en-US|access-date=2019-11-02}} He says that he works to achieve greater science literacy for his listeners, telling Nieman Storyboard, "That’s why I don’t like to think about dumbing something down. I think people can handle complexity. Because I think people are curious beings somewhere inside."
Upon joining NPR in 2023, Shapiro changed his air name to Ari Daniel, to avoid confusion with "All Things Considered" host Ari Shapiro.
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