Michael Stang

Michael Stang (* 1978 ) is a German science journalist, known from the daily radio program Wissenschaft aktuell on Deutschlandfunk.

Life

Stang studied anthropology, ethnology, palaeontology and geology in Mainz. After completing his master's degree, he worked in various editorial departments of print media and radio stations as part of a scholarship from the Bertelsmann Foundation for Science Journalism. Since 2005 he has worked as a freelance science journalist in Cologne for the radio stations DLF, WDR, BR, SWR, ORF and SRF as well as for print media such as the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung .

In 2016 he was “Journalist in Residence” at the Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies (HITS). According to his own information, he is a member of the Journalists Network , the Science Press Conference (WPK), freelance writer , ver.di and host writer.

Scholarships and Awards

• 2009: Journalism Prize from the GlaxoSmithKline Foundation
• 2010: Scholarship from the Robert Bosch Stiftung to the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and to the EuroScience Open Forum (ESOF)
• 2012: Media Prize of the German Geography Society (DGfG) for the radio feature "China is running out of water"
• 2014: Media scholarship to Duke University , Durham (North Carolina) from the RIAS Berlin Commission

Individual evidence

1. ^ "Journalist in Residence": Michael Stang at HITS . In: HITS gGmbH . ( h-its.org [accessed October 19, 2018]).
2. ^ "Journalist in Residence": Michael Stang at HITS. Retrieved October 19, 2018 . 
3. ↑ Super User: Michael Stang, science journalist - About me. Retrieved October 19, 2018 (UK English). 
4. ↑ Awards - Excellent Authors . In: Deutschlandfunk . ( deutschlandfunk.de [accessed October 17, 2018]).
5. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from October 20, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.