William Broad
Encyclopedia
William J. Broad is an author and a Senior Writer at The New York Times
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s with Times colleagues, as well as an Emmy
and a DuPont. He won the Pulitzers for coverage of the space shuttle Challenger disaster and the feasibility of antimissile arms. In 2002, he won the Emmy for a PBS Nova documentary that detailed the threat of germ terrorism, based on his best-selling book Germs. He was a Pulitzer finalist in 2005 for articles written with Times colleague David E. Sanger on nuclear proliferation. In 2007, he shared a DuPont Award (The Discovery Channel) from the Columbia University
Graduate School of Journalism for the documentary, "Nuclear Jihad: Can Terrorists Get the Bomb?"
(Simon & Schuster, 2001) was a number-one New York Times bestseller. His books have been translated into more than a dozen languages. His other titles include The Universe Below: Discovering the Secrets of the Deep Sea (Simon & Schuster, 1997); Teller's War: The Top-Secret Story Behind the Star Wars Deception (Simon & Schuster, 1992); and (with Nicholas Wade) Betrayers of the Truth: Fraud and Deceit in the Halls of Science (Simon & Schuster, 1982).
In 2009, he received criticism for an article on the sustainability of the blue grenadier
fish from representatives of the New Zealand
fishing industry.
The New York Times
The New York Times is an American daily newspaper founded and continuously published in New York City since 1851. The New York Times has won 106 Pulitzer Prizes, the most of any news organization...
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Awards
Broad has won two Pulitzer PrizePulitzer Prize
The Pulitzer Prize is a U.S. award for achievements in newspaper and online journalism, literature and musical composition. It was established by American publisher Joseph Pulitzer and is administered by Columbia University in New York City...
s with Times colleagues, as well as an Emmy
Emmy Award
An Emmy Award, often referred to simply as the Emmy, is a television production award, similar in nature to the Peabody Awards but more focused on entertainment, and is considered the television equivalent to the Academy Awards and the Grammy Awards .A majority of Emmys are presented in various...
and a DuPont. He won the Pulitzers for coverage of the space shuttle Challenger disaster and the feasibility of antimissile arms. In 2002, he won the Emmy for a PBS Nova documentary that detailed the threat of germ terrorism, based on his best-selling book Germs. He was a Pulitzer finalist in 2005 for articles written with Times colleague David E. Sanger on nuclear proliferation. In 2007, he shared a DuPont Award (The Discovery Channel) from the Columbia University
Columbia University
Columbia University in the City of New York is a private, Ivy League university in Manhattan, New York City. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the...
Graduate School of Journalism for the documentary, "Nuclear Jihad: Can Terrorists Get the Bomb?"
Journalism career
Broad is the author or co-author of seven books, most recently The Oracle: The Lost Secrets and Hidden Message of Ancient Delphi (The Penguin Press, 2006). Germs: Biological Weapons and America's Secret WarGerms: Biological Weapons and America's Secret War
Germs: Biological Weapons and America's Secret War is a #1 New York Times Nonfiction Best Seller. It was written by The New York Times journalists Judith Miller, Stephen Engelberg, and William Broad...
(Simon & Schuster, 2001) was a number-one New York Times bestseller. His books have been translated into more than a dozen languages. His other titles include The Universe Below: Discovering the Secrets of the Deep Sea (Simon & Schuster, 1997); Teller's War: The Top-Secret Story Behind the Star Wars Deception (Simon & Schuster, 1992); and (with Nicholas Wade) Betrayers of the Truth: Fraud and Deceit in the Halls of Science (Simon & Schuster, 1982).
In 2009, he received criticism for an article on the sustainability of the blue grenadier
Blue grenadier
The blue grenadier, hoki, blue hake, New Zealand whiptail, whiptail or whiptail hake, Macruronus novaezelandiae, is a merluccid hake of the family Merlucciidae found around southern Australia and New Zealand at depths of between . Its length is between...
fish from representatives of the New Zealand
New Zealand
New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...
fishing industry.
Publications
- With Nicholas WadeNicholas WadeNicholas Wade is a British-born scientific reporter, editor and author who currently writes for the Science Times section of The New York Times.-Biography:Wade was born in Aylesbury, England and educated at Eton College and King's College, Cambridge...
Betrayers of the Truth: Fraud and Deceit in the Halls of ScienceBetrayers of the Truth: Fraud and Deceit in the Halls of ScienceBetrayers of the Truth: Fraud and Deceit in the Halls of Science is a book by William Broad and Nicholas Wade, published in 1982 by Simon & Schuster in New York, and subsequently also by Century Publishing in London, and by Oxford University Press in 1985...
. New York: Simon & SchusterSimon & SchusterSimon & Schuster, Inc., a division of CBS Corporation, is a publisher founded in New York City in 1924 by Richard L. Simon and M. Lincoln Schuster. It is one of the four largest English-language publishers, alongside Random House, Penguin and HarperCollins...
, 1983. ISBN 0-67149-549-6. - Star Warriors : A Penetrating Look into the Lives of the Young Scientists Behind Our Space Age Weaponry, Simon and Schuster, NY (1985) ISBN 0-671-54566-3.
- Teller's War: The Top-Secret Story Behind the Star Wars Deception, Simon and Schuster, NY (1992) ISBN 0-671-70106-1.
- The Universe Below (1997) New York: Simon & Schuster. ISBN 0-684-81108-1 Also ISBN 978-068-481108-6
- The Oracle: The Lost Secrets and Hidden Messages of Ancient Delphi (2006). New York: Penguin Press. ISBN 1-594-20081-5 Also ISBN 978-1-594-20081-6