"THIS SHIT IS NOT ACCEPTABLE"--ANOTHER SMITHSONIAN RESEARCHER SPEAKS OUT ABOUT SEXUAL ASSAULT AND HER OWN EXPERIENCES
Earlier this week, I published a story in The Verge entitled "From Texas to the Smithsonian, following a trail of sexual misconduct."…
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How to apologize--or not--if you are a department chair caught on video making extremely sexist remarks
Earlier today The Verge published my investigation into a trail of sexual misconduct that led from Texas Tech University to the Smithsonian Instit…
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Separating fact from fiction about David Bowie
Since David Bowie's death last January, a cottage industry of new biographies has quickly cropped up, some more accurate than others. One …
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KRIS HELGEN KEEPS HIS JOB, BUT AT WHAT PRICE? HIS FULL STATEMENT ON THE OUTCOME
Rotunda of the NMNH (Wikimedia Commons/Blake Patterson) Today in The Verge , I report on the verdict handed down by National Museum of Natural …
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KRIS HELGEN'S FORMER STUDENTS GO PUBLIC WITH THEIR STRONG LETTER OF SUPPORT
As those who have been following this blog and other events know, I am covering the current disciplinary proceedings against National Museum of Nat…
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My book about Neolithic Catalhoyuk in Turkey and the origins of civilization, the paperback edition. For more information about it, please visit MY WEB SITE
- Michael Balter
- I have been a working journalist for more than 40 years, beginning in Los Angeles as an investigative reporter and then in Paris as a travel, food, and science writer. For more than 20 years I have covered anthropology and archaeology writer for Science, Audubon, Scientific American, SAPIENS, and other publications. I have also covered sexual misconduct for The Verge, Scientific American, and others; I write about mental health, especially schizophrenia; and I engage in occasional media criticism. I returned to the USA in October 2017 after 30 years in Paris, and now live in the New York City area, where I currently teach journalism at City College of New York (I previously taught journalism at Boston University and New York University.) For more about me and what I do, copies of my articles, information about my book, and other goodies, please visit MY WEB SITE
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