Ed Yong: What Reporting on Long COVID Taught Me
Ed Yong first started reporting on long COVID in June 2020, before the condition was widely recognized by the medical community.
In this talk, he'll share how he approached his coverage, what he learned, why it mattered, and how this work changed him--his understanding of complex chronic illnesses, his attitudes to journalism, and his hopes for what his field can achieve.
After his keynote, Ed will also be facilitating a roundtable dialogue bringing together representatives from the local Long COVID patient and caregiver community, BC’s public health professionals, and researchers.
For his coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic, Ed won the Pulitzer Prize in explanatory journalism; the George Polk Award for science reporting; the Benton Award for distinguished public service; the Victor Cohn Prize for medical science reporting, the Neil and Susan Sheehan Award for investigative journalism; the John P. McGovern Award from the American Medical Writers’ Association; and the AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Award for in-depth reporting. He was also a two-time finalist for the National Magazine Award in public service, and was described as “the most important and impactful journalist of 2020” by Poynter.