[Editors] Freelancer - Communications / Journalism

[Dianne Finch]

Editors:

If anyone needs a freelance or part-time writer/journalist, please get in touch with Rowan Philp.  I've attached his resume, and his bio is below.

Rowan is a veteran science/health reporter, and has returned to Cambridge from South Africa to join his partner and their new baby girl! 

He's interested in communications work at MIT - and has covered everything from astronomy to HIV.

His resume is attached, and his BIO is below.

Rowan can be reached at
Thanks very much,
Dianne Finch
617 258-8889

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Current BBC Story:
http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20120209-hospitals-receive-radical-surgery



Rowan Philp was chief foreign correspondent for the Sunday Times of South Africa, which is
Africa's largest newspaper.

Previously, he won an Alfred Friendly Fellowship to the Washington
Post, where he broke fellowship records with more than 20 national
feature stories published; including two White House assignments.

(In this foreign correspondence role, he has reported from close to 30
countries around the world, from the separatist war in the southern
Philippines and the earthquake in Haiti to politics in Libya and the
Asian tsunami in Sri Lanka. He was also his paper's UK bureau chief in
London for two years), and has covered the past 4 US elections on the
campaign trail - a real all-rounder!

On science, he has reported on large scale projects like the Large
Hadron Collider; the Square Kilometer Array radio telescope; and Elon
Musk?s Space-X rockets, as well as policy stuff and science profiles.
At MIT, he studied undergrad astrophysics and science communication in
both semesters (even blogging for the Cambridge Science Festival), and
is keen to produce more work on making science accessible and fun for
lay audiences.

On public health, he had to avoid Robert Mugabe?s secret police to
expose Zimbabwe?s cholera epidemic, and the government?s lethal
inaction to it, and worked as a volunteer for two months at Paul
Farmer?s Partners in Health NGO in Boston.

Here is the kind of health feature he is now producing for the BBC:
http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20120209-hospitals-receive-radical-surgery

He?s up for any new challenge to help support his baby daughter, so
any ideas would be welcomed.

Thanks
ETC

Dianne Finch
Multimedia Manager
Knight Science Journalism at MIT
E19-623, 400 Main Street
Cambridge, MA   02139-4307
(617) 258-8889
dfinch at mit.edu
http://web.mit.edu/knight-science



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