Sarah Lewin Frasier Email & Phone Number

New York, Ny, Us

Greater New York City Area

As Assistant News Editor, I plan, assign and edit the print Advances section of the magazine each month and edit online news. I also supervise Scientific American's editorial interns and fellows.

Greater New York City Area

(Staff Writer June 2015 - July 2017; Associate Editor July 2017 - June 2019)• Assigned and edited news, feature and reference articles on a quick news cycle to be clear, accurate, comprehensive and entertaining; chose art and prepared articles for production• Chronicled the latest space science discoveries, breaking spaceflight news and tech advances bringing us closer to the stars; provided live event coverage and analysis of spacewalks, launches and conferences• Spearheaded Space.com's books coverage; read awesome space-related fiction and nonfiction and talked with the authors; reported on the space-adjacent entertainment and pop culture realms; built LEGOs• Supervised Space.com's intern; offered training and feedback on reporting, writing and matching the website's style and tone

Greater New York City Area

• Identified weird, wild, and world-changing scientific discoveries and trends to write about for the magazine's Advances section; covered timely news in-depth online• Edited complex online articles for clarity and structure, smoothed language of translated articles• Wrote the monthly magazine “Quick Hits” section spotlighting timely news from around the world

My freelance work has appeared in The Scientist, Scientific American, IEEE Spectrum, Quanta Magazine, Science Friday, Scholastic SuperScience and MATH Magazine, Johns Hopkins Medicine Magazine and the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra’s Overture Magazine.Freelance fact-checker: Quanta Magazine, Science Friday

Greater New York City Area

• Dug up mummies, calculators, souffles, and mold for online features and Picture of the Week articles• Rigorously fact-checked freelance articles and offered suggestions to improve accuracy• Pitched ideas and research to be explored on the radio show each Friday

Greater New York City Area

• Balanced technical detail and readability while writing magazine and online pieces about holograms, thinking cars, and supercomputers, as well as writing contributor biographies and photo captions• Designed and produced a detailed interactive data visualization and contributed to its print analogue (chosen as Tableau’s “Viz of the Day” Dec 10, 2014)• Took over as blog czar: scheduling, formatting, and editing all online posts on given days

Greater Boston Area

• Pitched, researched, and wrote technology, research innovation, and biology stories for Vector, Boston Children’s Hospital’s research blog• Wrote and monitored social media promoting the blog on Twitter, Facebook, and Google Plus

Greater Boston Area

• Demystified swarm robotics and wrote a five-part series on cryptography for the InsideNOVA Blog• Researched background information for potential NOVA TV episodes and found episode ideas hidden in science news and press releases

Greater Boston Area

Performed literature reviews and helped write and edit a review paper.

Fells Point

• Wrote press releases ranging from a dinosaur discovery to a new way of looking at cells’ energy• Wrote Q&As for the web revealing what makes leading researchers tick• Edited video interviews with researchers for the hospital’s YouTube channel

Baltimore, Maryland Area

• Taught mathematics and robotics to fourth through sixth graders• Designed and ran program-wide activities for a variety of age groups

Bachelor Of Arts (A.B.), Mathematics

Activities and Societies: Karin and the Improvs, Technology House, The Triple Helix, Brown Daily Herald

Master Of Arts (M.A.), Science, Health, And Environmental Reporting Program

Activities and Societies: Scienceline.org: physical sciences editor, multimedia editor