Michael Fitzgerald

Michael Fitzgerald is a freelance journalist. He was most recently editor-in-chief of Harvard Public Health. Prior to that, he was articles editor at the Globe Magazine, the Boston Globe’s award-winning Sunday periodical. He was a reporter and editor at Computerworld, founding news editor at ZDNet, executive editor at Red Herring magazine, a managing editor at TechTV, and spent 14 years freelancing for dozens of publications and web sites, including Discover, The Economist, Fast Company, MIT Technology Review, The New York Times, and the Wall Street Journal. He was a 2007 Templeton-Cambridge Journalism Fellow in Science and Religion and a 2011 Nieman Journalism Fellow at Harvard University. Michael holds a history degree from the University of Chicago.