Ed Yong

British science communicator and journalist · United Kingdom · On the map · Journalists · Born 1981 · age 45

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.

Ed Yong is read about 83 times a day, in 14 languages.

A typical day, 30 days to 20 September 2026

The middle day of the days counted, so one week of news cannot move it. The line under it is the last 60 days, one point a day.

Something wrong?

Compare Claim

A life in dates

2024Guggenheim FellowshipAward2021Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory ReportingAward2020George Polk AwardAwardNeil and Susan Sheehan awardAward2016European Science Writers AwardAward2010National Academies Communication AwardAward1981Born

People around Ed

Family

Ed Yong

Partners

Spouse Liz Neeley

Is this everyone?

Only relatives with a profile here are drawn, so a family can be larger than this. A line here can also be wrong. A marriage is drawn as ended only where its end is recorded, so a spouse drawn here may be a former one.

Correct this family