Keith Kloor

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Keith Kloor
NationalityAmerican
Alma mater SUNY Empire State
Occupation(s)Writer and editor
Website www.keithkloor.com

Keith Kloor is an American freelance writer and journalism professor. [1] He teaches magazine article writing as an adjunct lecturer for the Arthur L. Carter journalism institute at New York University, [2] as well as Urban Environmental Reporting at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism [3] and is a former fellow of the Center for Environmental Journalism. [4] He lives in Brooklyn, New York.

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Career

Kloor is an adjunct professor of journalism at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism, Stevens Institute of Technology, and the New York University Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute. [5] [6]

From 2000 to 2008, he was an editor at Audubon Magazine. From 2008 to 2009 he was a Fellow at the University of Colorado's Center for Environmental Journalism. [7] From 2013 to 2014 Kloor served as a Senior Editor for Cosmos Magazine. [8]

From early 2009 until April 15, 2015, Kloor wrote a blog entitled Collide-a-Scape for Discover magazine. [9]

Kloor has written for Nature , [1] Science [10] and for the Archaeological Institute of America. [11] Other major publication credits include: Smithsonian Magazine, Science, The Washington Post Magazine, Archaeology, Backpacker, Issues in Science and Technology, High Country News, Mother Jones, Cosmos, Slate, Yale Environment 360, Yale Forum on Climate Change & the Media, Climate Central, and Bloomberg Business. [12]

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References

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  2. Faculty-Keith Kloor Archived 2010-08-08 at the Wayback Machine , New York University, Accessed 5 August 2010.
  3. Keith Kloor - Adjunct Faculty, CUNY Graduate School of Journalism, Accessed 6 October 2014.
  4. "Bios of Former Fellows". Center for Environmental Journalism. p. 1. Archived from the original on 28 May 2010. Retrieved 5 August 2010.
  5. Keith Kloor, Adjunct Faculty. Accessed November 2017
  6. Keith Kloor profile, Consortium for Science Policy and Outcomes, Arizona State University. Accessed November 2017.
  7. Kloor, Keith. "About". Collide-a-scape. p. 1. Retrieved 5 August 2010.
  8. Cosmos Magazine Keith Kloor, Senior Editor. Accessed November 2017.
  9. Kloor, Keith (15 April 2015). "A Farewell Post". Collide-a-Scape. Discover magazine. Retrieved 6 August 2015.
  10. See Bibliography.
  11. Kloor, Keith (5 November 2009). "In the Field with Taft Blackhorse and John Stein". Archaeology. Archaeological Institute of America.
  12. Keith Kloor selected articles, accessed November 2017.