Dan Fagin

Dan Fagin (born February 1, 1963) is an American journalist who specializes in environmental health issues. For fourteen years he was the environmental writer at Newsday, where he was a principal member of two reporting teams that were finalists for the Pulitzer Prize. Fagin is a former president of the Society of Environmental Journalists. In 2003, his stories about cancer epidemiology won the Science Journalism Award of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and also won the Science-in-Society Award of the National Association of Science Writers. Since 2005, Fagin has been an associate professor in the Department of Journalism at New York University and the director of the NYU Science, Health and Environmental Reporting Program.