Sarah Wild Explained

Sarah Wild is a South African science journalist and author. In November 2017 she became the first African to win a AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Award.[1] [2]

Wild is the author of Searching African Skies: The Square Kilometre Array and South Africa’s Quest to Hear the Songs of the Stars (2012)[3] and Innovation: Shaping South Africa through Science (2015),[4] [5] which was published in Afrikaans as Innovasie: Hoe wetenskap Suid-Afrika vorm.[6]

Wild was named the Siemens pan-African Profile Awards for science journalism winner in 2013,[7] and received the Dow Technology and Innovation Reporting award at the 2015 CNN Multichjoice African Journalist of the Year awards.[8]

Wild has written for Scientific American,[9] The Guardian, The Atlantic,[10] Undark Magazine, AfricaCheck and Mail & Guardian.[11]

References

  1. Web site: Winners of the 2017 AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Awards Science Journalism Awards. sjawards.aaas.org. en. 2017-11-15.
  2. Web site: Winners of the 2017 AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Awards. EurekAlert!. en. 2017-11-15.
  3. Book: Wild, Sarah. Searching African Skies. 2012. Jacana Media. 9781431404728. en.
  4. Book: Wild, Sarah. Innovation: Shaping South Africa Through Science. 2015. Pan Macmillan. 9781770104389. en.
  5. Hart. Tim G.B.. Development. Economic Performance and. Council. Human Sciences Research. Pretoria. Africa. South. Anthropology. Department of Sociology and Social. University. Stellenbosch. Stellenbosch. Africa. South. 2016-07-01. From the ocean to outer space – and almost everything in between. South African Journal of Science. en. 112. 7/8. 2 . 10.17159/sajs.2016/a0160. 0038-2353. free.
  6. Book: Wild, Sarah. Innovasie: Hoe wetenskap Suid-Afrika vorm. 2015-09-01. LAPA Uitgewers. 9780799376692. af.
  7. News: M&G's Sarah Wild scoops Africa's top science journalism award. Staff Reporter. The M&G Online. 2017-11-15. en.
  8. Web site: African journalism shines at awards The Media Online. themediaonline.co.za. 14 October 2015 . en-US. 2017-11-15.
  9. News: Stories by Sarah Wild. Scientific American. 2017-11-15. en.
  10. Web site: Sarah Wild. Wild. Sarah. The Atlantic. en-US. 2017-11-15.
  11. News: Sarah Wild - 10th World Conference of Science Journalists, San Francisco 2017. 10th World Conference of Science Journalists, San Francisco 2017. 2017-11-15. en-US.

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