RESUME HIGHLIGHTS
NICOLETTA LANESE (she/they) is a Brooklyn-based journalist whose work makes the obscured world of medical research accessible to the general public. Their aim is to provide readers with reliable, understandable health information; to demystify the body’s inner workings; and to highlight exciting breakthroughs without overhyping them. She’s written and edited for Live Science since 2019, and you can also find her byline in The Scientist, Science News, Stanford Medicine Magazine, The Mercury News and Asahi Shimbun GLOBE+, among other outlets.
EXPERIENCE
Live Science, New York, NY
Health channel editor, March 2023 – present
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Commissions and edits health news and evergreen articles from staff writers and freelancers
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Reports health news, including daily news, analyses, “explainers” and long-form features
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Sets health vertical strategy alongside the EIC and managing editor with the goal of covering core areas of interest, meeting readership targets and providing supporting content for pages
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Assists in top edits and copy edits across other verticals (Human Behavior, Planet Earth, Animals, Archaeology, Space, Physics)
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Has launched an initiative to track the diversity of sources quoted in Live Science stories
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Appears in and edits occasional videos for Live Science's social media channels (eg TikTok)
Health news editor, Jan. 2023 – March 2023
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Oversaw all news within the health vertical, setting strategy alongside the health channel editor
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Curated the site’s daily email newsletter
Staff writer, health and medicine beat, Sept. 2019 – Dec. 2022
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Wrote health news and evergreen articles, while also regularly contributing to other verticals (topics spanning climate, natural disasters, animals, paleontology, evolution, earth science)
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Regularly appeared in videos, podcasts and livestreams, including a live COVID-19 Q&A that ran Feb. to Sept. 2020
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Experience as radio guest on Science Fantastic with Dr. Michio Kaku and The Filipino Edition
POSTGRADUATE TRAINING
Medicine in the Media – Aug. 2024
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Workshop hosted at Dartmouth College (Hanover, NH) to hone skills in reporting on medical research
AHCJ-New York Health Journalism Fellowship – awarded April 2020
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To attend AHCJ in Austin, TX (applied to the following year's conference due to COVID)
2019 Society for Neuroscience Science Journalism Student Award – Oct. 2019
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To attend and cover Neuroscience 2019 in Chicago, IL
INTERNSHIPS + FELLOWSHIPS
JOURNALISM
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The Scientist Magazine, remote, July – Sept. 2019
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The Mercury News, CA, April – June 2018
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Monterey Herald, CA, Jan. – March 2018
COMMS
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Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, Japan, Oct. 2018 – March 2019
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UC San Francisco, CA, June – Sept. 2018
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Stanford School of Medicine, CA, Oct. – Dec. 2017
EDUCATION
UC Santa Cruz, 2018
Graduate Certificate in Science Communication
University of Florida, 2017
B.S. in Psychology: Behavioral and Cognitive Neuroscience, cum laude
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Included cognitive neuroscience research and medical shadowing in neurology (via the Emory MD-SEE program)
B.F.A. in Dance, summa cum laude
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Current dance portfolio: nicomoves.com