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Ed Yong on the Pandemic’s Legacy on Science Research and Reporting

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News Commentary, News, Politics

4.2727 Ratings

🗓️ 24 March 2025

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

During the pandemic, former Atlantic writer Ed Yong became a trusted source for news about COVID and its impact. In 2021 he won a Pulitzer Prize for that work, which often was about “the massive gulf between what you want the world to be and what you see happening around you.” As part of our series looking at the legacy of the pandemic five years on, we talk to Yong about how COVID changed our relationship with health news, reporting and research. Guests: Ed Yong, science journalist and author, "An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us." Yong won the 2021 Pulitzer prize for his writing in the Atlantic about the Covid-19 pandemic. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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During the pandemic, former Atlantic writer Ed Yong became the go-to source for analysis and insight about how COVID was moving across the world

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and this country specifically. In 2021, he won a Pulitzer Prize for that work, which often was about,

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quote, the massive gulf between what you want the world to be

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and what you see happening around you. As part of our series looking at the legacy of the pandemic

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five years on, we talked to Yang about how COVID changed our relationship with news, institutions,

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and each other. So coming up next, right after this news.

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I'm Alexis Madrigal.

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If you go back to 2018 and read Ed Young's

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