David Ropeik
David Ropeik is an Instructor at Harvard University, an author, and an expert/consultant on risk perception, risk communication, and risk management.
He is author of How Risky Is It, Really? Why Our Fears Don’t Always Match The Facts (2010, McGraw Hill) and principal co-author of RISK, A Practical Guide for Deciding What’s Really Safe and What’s Really Dangerous in the World Around You, (2002, Houghton Mifflin).
He blogs at BigThink.com, Psychology Today, Huffington Post, Scientific American, and Nature. David was a television reporter for WCVB-TV in Boston from 1978 – 2000, where he specialized in reporting on environment and science issues. He twice won the DuPont-Columbia Award, sometimes cited as the television equivalent of the Pulitzer Prize, and seven regional EMMY awards. He was a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT 1994-95 and a member of the Board of Directors of the Society of Environmental Journalists from 1991-2000. He created and directs the program Improving Media Coverage of Risk, and has taught journalism at Boston University, Tufts University, and MIT.