Lauren Barack
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About
Lauren Barack is an award-winning science and technology journalist. Winner of the Gerald Loeb Award for Distinguished Business and Financial Journalism for the series, ''Middle Class Crunch,'' Lauren investigated the economic impact on the middle class producing both video and text that hit 1 million views in its first week for MSN Money at launch.She has a Master's in Cognitive Neuroscience and has written for Newsweek, New Scientist, Wired, Parenting, Inc., The San Francisco Chronicle, Quartz, KQED, the New York Post, The Daily Beast, Salon, Variety, Fortune, St. Petersburg Times, Men's Journal and others. Lauren also helped launch, staff and develop editorial for GearBrain, a news site focused on consumer technology, and ran Mothers On The Verge, a parenting blog featured on HuffPost.A former television producer and writer, she segment produced comedy shows for Comedy Central, served as an associate producer on stand up shows for MTV, and worked as a script writer for TNT and VH-1.Lauren has a Master's in Journalism from UC Berkeley, a BFA in filmmaking from NYU's Tisch School of The Arts, and also studied genetics at UC Berkeley as an undergraduate. A former Poynter Fellow, Lauren earned a Pace Foundation Fellowship in Robotics, won an Eddie Award for her COVID-19 coverage at School Library Journal, and received an Associated Press Television Radio Association honor while in graduate school.
Additional Info
Byline/Pseudonym : Lauren Barack
Location (City or region) : New York
List any memberships you have with other organizations : Authors Guild, Women's Media Group
General Subjects (Select all that apply) : Business & Finance, Education, Parenting, Technology, Science, Arts & Culture
Specialty Subjects : Neuroscience, robotics, artificial intelligence, virtual learning
Skills (Select all that apply) : Essays, Feature writing, Ghostwriting, Investigative reporting, News, Op-Ed, Profiles, Q&A, Scripts, Scriptwriting, SEO, Social media, Television, Web copy, Editing, Blog posts, Books, Articles, Copywriting, Coaching, Communications strategy, Radio (writing), Television (writing), Television (reporting)
Writing Credits : Published in: Inc., New Scientist, USA Today, Wired, Wired.com, Daily Beast, Newsweek, Salon, Quartz, KQED, Fortune.com, Parenting, San Francisco Chronicle, St. Petersburg Times, Arizona Republic, Daily News, School Library Journal, Financial Planning, Huffington Post, others.
Book Credits : ''A Girl's Guide To Taking Over The World: Writings From The Girl Zine Revolution''
Awards & Recognitions : The Gerald Loeb Award for Distinguished Business and Financial Journalism Eddie Award, Covid-19 education coverage Pace Foundation Fellowship, Robotics, University of Maryland Poynter Fellow, St. Petersburg Times Associated Press Television and Radio Association Honor
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