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Christian Elliott
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Science Journalist, Freelance
Chicago
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Biography
I'm a freelance science and environmental reporter and audio producer based in Chicago, Illinois. I'm currently an intern for the audio storytelling team at NASA, which produces the agency's flagship podcast, Curious Universe. I've reported and produced audio stories for radio and podcasts for outlets like WBEZ, Chicago Public Media, Deutsche Welle (DW) and WVIK, Quad Cities NPR and have written feature stories for National Geographic, Scientific American, Undark, Hakai, Sierra, Discover and MIT Technology Review. My work has been republished in Popular Science and The Atlantic. I received my master's degree in science and environmental journalism from Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism in 2022. Before that, I graduated from Augustana College in 2020 with a Bachelor of Arts in cultural anthropology and environmental studies and a concentration of classes in computer science. I found my love of storytelling in anthropology, a social science discipline that straddles the boundary between the sciences and the humanities and attempts to communicate complex theories about the world through grounded, personal stories. My dual background in the sciences and the humanities, ethnographic and laboratory research, prepared me to understand science as a culturally situated and limited form of knowledge production that requires finding narratives within data and framing them in particular ways to affect public attitudes.
Science , Climate Change , Environment
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Content
By Christian Elliott| Children's Health Defense@ By Christian ElliottGrowing up in Iowa means growing up with corn. To an outsider, the scale can be overwhelming. It’s all you see for miles. For me, though, it was just normal: The fields around my family farm were my childhood playground. But one thing struck me as off: Nothing ate the corn, as we had no cows, pigs or chickens. Each year, the harvest disappeared down the highway on semi-trucks. And it’s where the corn ended up that’s a problem: likely, in your car’s gas tank.
By Christian Elliott| UNDARK Verified Growing up in Iowa means growing up with corn. To an outsider, the scale can be overwhelming. It’s all you see for miles. For me, though, it was just normal: The fields around my family farm were my childhood playground. But one thing struck me as off: Nothing ate the corn, as we had no cows, pigs, or chickens. Each year, the harvest disappeared down the highway on semi-trucks. And it’s where the corn ended up that’s a problem: likely, in your car’s gas tank.
By Christian Elliott| Smithsonian Magazine Verified In October 2021, New York University computer scientist Claudio Silva found himself in the basement of a paleontology museum in remote northeastern Brazil. He’d just visited a dig site in the nearby Araripe Basin, one of the most fossil-rich regions in the world—a journey that required a flight on a tiny, four-seater aircraft. Now, he was surrounded by the bounty of that basin in the Plácido Cidade Nuvens Museum of Paleontology (known by the Portuguese abbreviation MPPCN).
Company Info
Freelance
Freelancer.com is the largest freelancing and crowdsourcing marketplace in the world, connecting over 81 million employers and freelancers across more than 247 countries. Founded in 2009 and based in Sydney, Australia, the platform allows employers to post jobs while freelancers can bid on these projects. It is publicly traded on the Australian Securities Exchange under the ticker ASX:FLN. The platform supports a variety of work categories, including software development, writing, design, and marketing. Freelancer.com also offers contests for creative work, where employers can award prize money to winning entries. Users can choose from different membership plans, including free and paid subscriptions, which provide various benefits. The mobile app enhances project management and communication for users on the go. With a diverse customer base that includes individuals, small businesses, and large enterprises, Freelancer.com plays a significant role in the global online economy.
De Pere, Wisconsin, United States