Nsikan Akpan Named Health And Science Editor At WNYC/New York

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NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC Science Editor NSIKAN AKPAN is joining NEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO News-Talk WNYC-A-F/NEW YORK as Health and Science Editor, beginning JANUARY 11th. AKPAN previously worked at PBS NEWSHOUR on a team that won a 2020 EMMY and 2019 PEABODY AWARD, and for NPR, SCIENCE NEWS, SCIENCE MAGAZINE, KUSP/SANTA CRUZ, the SANTA CRUZ SENTINEL, and COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY's Center for Infection and Immunity.

A note to staff from WNYC Editor-in-Chief AUDREY COOPER said that AKPAN's team, to be announced next week, will include three reporters, one a new hire.

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