Ari Daniel Shapiro

This article is about the Boston-based reporter. For the NPR general reporter and host of All Things Considered, see Ari Shapiro.

Ari Daniel Shapiro is a freelance science journalist based in Boston, Massachusetts. Shapiro is a science reporter for National Public Radio. ^[1] He previously reported on a freelance basis for NPR, as well as Public Radio International, The New York Times , and Nova . ^[2]

Education

• Ph.D. in biological oceanography from MIT and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution ^[3]
• Boston College, 2001 ^[4]

In college, Shapiro was a summer intern at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. He worked on a project with killer whales. He later got a master's degree from the University of St. Andrews in Scotland, where he studied grey seal pups. ^[5]

Career

In addition to his work as a reporter, Shapiro is a Senior Producer for The Story Collider, a live storytelling show. ^{[3] [6]} He says that he works to achieve greater science literacy for his listeners, telling Nieman Storyboard, "That’s why I don’t like to think about dumbing something down. I think people can handle complexity. Because I think people are curious beings somewhere inside."

Upon joining NPR in 2023, Shapiro changed his air name to Ari Daniel, to avoid confusion with "All Things Considered" host Ari Shapiro.

References

1. NPR https://www.npr.org/people/297147967/ari-daniel . Retrieved 30 November 2023.{{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
2. "ADS resume 2012 04 24" (PDF). Retrieved 2019-08-30.
3. "Ari Daniel: "It's so important to show stories that have hopeful threads."". Nieman Storyboard. Retrieved 2019-11-02.
4. "Googled: Ari Daniel Shapiro '01". at BC. Retrieved 20 June 2019.
5. "Oceanus: The Journal of our Ocean Planet". Woods Hole. Retrieved 22 September 2023.
6. "Ari Daniel". The Story Collider. 10 January 2019. Retrieved 2019-11-02.