Expertise
About
Paul Raeburn was a journalist and blogger, and the author of five books, including, most recently, The Game Theorist’s Guide to Parenting, in 2016, and Do Fathers Matter?, in 2014, both published by Scientific American/FSG. He died in April 2024 from Parkinson's disease.
He was the author of more than 150 freelance articles for Discover, The Huffington Post, The New York Times Magazine, Scientific American, National Public Radio, and Psychology Today, among many others. He was a past president of the National Association of Science Writers. In addition, he was a media critic for the Knight Science Journalism Tracker from 2009 to 2012 and the chief media critic from 2012 to 2014.
Raeburn was the science editor and chief science correspondent at the Associated Press from 1981 to 1996, and a senior editor and writer at BusinessWeek for seven years after that. From 2008 to 2009, he was the creator, executive producer, and host of Innovations in Medicine and The Washington Health Report on XM satellite radio.
Education
- Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Professional Organizations
- Past president, National Association of Science Writers