# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ed-yong
# Generated: 2026-08-13T06:55:49.240Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ed-yong"
name: "Ed Yong"
slug: "ed-yong"
description: "Edmund Soon-Weng Yong is a British-American science journalist and author. In 2021, he received a Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting for a series on the COVID-19 pandemic."
tagline: "British science communicator and journalist"
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country:
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category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1981"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump