Contributors
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Emily is a founding staff writer at Heatmap. Previously she was a staff writer at the nonprofit climate journalism outlet Grist, where she covered all aspects of decarbonization, from clean energy to electrified buildings to carbon dioxide removal.https://twitter.com/emilypont
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Jacob is Heatmap's founding multimedia editor. Before joining Heatmap, he was The Week's digital art director and an associate editor at MAD magazine.
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Jeva is a founding staff writer at Heatmap. Her writing has also appeared in The Week, where she formerly served as executive editor and culture critic, as well as in The New York Daily News, Vice, and Gothamist, among others. Jeva lives in New York City.https://twitter.com/Jee_vuh
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Matthew is a correspondent at Heatmap. Previously he was an economics reporter at Grid, where he covered macroeconomics and energy, and a business reporter at BuzzFeed News, where he covered finance. He has written for The New York Times, the Guardian, Barron's, and New York Magazine.
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Neel is a founding staff writer at Heatmap. Prior to Heatmap, he was a science and climate reporter at Vox, an editorial fellow at Audubon magazine, and an assistant producer at Radiolab, where he helped produce The Other Latif, a series about one detainee's journey to Guantanamo Bay. He is a graduate of the Literary Reportage program at NYU, which helped him turn incoherent scribbles into readable stories, and he grew up (mostly) in Bangalore. He tweets sporadically at @neel_dhan.https://twitter.com/neel_dhan
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Nico is the founder and editor in chief of Heatmap. He was previously the editor in chief of The Week online.https://twitter.com/NicoLauricella
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Robinson is the founding executive editor of Heatmap. He was previously a staff writer at The Atlantic, where he covered climate change, energy, and technology.https://twitter.com/robinsonmeyer
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Ajit Niranjan is an award-winning climate and data journalist in Berlin, mainly working for German public broadcaster DW News. You can watch his videos here: https://www.youtube.com/@ClimateSimple/videoshttps://twitter.com/NiranjanAjit
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Andrew Moseman has covered science, technology, and transportation for publications such as The Atlantic, Inverse, Insider, Outside, and MIT Technology Review. He was previously digital director of Popular Mechanics and now serves as online communications editor at Caltech. He is based in Los Angeles.https://twitter.com/agmoseman
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Bonnie Kristian is the author of Untrustworthy: The Knowledge Crisis Breaking Our Brains, Polluting Our Politics, and Corrupting Christian Community. She is a columnist at Christianity Today and has been published at outlets including The New York Times, The Week, Reason, and The Daily Beast.https://twitter.com/bonniekristian
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Brian Potter is senior fellow at the Institute for Progress. He also writes the newsletter Construction Physics.
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Daniel Golson is a freelance automotive journalist based in Los Angeles. While obsessed with every facet of the industry, his specialities are discussing design, new technology and the intersection of cars and culture. His personal garage is filled by a bright teal 1991 Mercedes-Benz 300SL named after Meryl Streep's character in 'Death Becomes Her.'https://twitter.com/dsgolson
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Daniel Knowles is Midwest correspondent for The Economist and the author of Carmageddon: How Cars Make Life Worse and What to Do About It. He lives in Chicago and writes about politics, transport and urban governance. Previously he worked on The Economist's foreign desk in London and in Nairobi, Mumbai and Washington DC.twitter.com/dlknowles
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Emma is a freelance journalist who covers energy, climate change, and the environment. She is based in California.https://twitter.com/emmafmerchant
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Hazel is an F1 journalist who writes about the technicalities of cars and moving stuff around. She's written for ESPN, The Drive, RaceFans, Motor Sport and more.
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Jason Torchinsky is the co-founder of The Autopian, the fastest-growing automotive enthusiast website on the internet. Prior to that, Torchinsky was Senior Editor of the website Jalopnik, where he wrote over 6,000 articles and helped define that site's tone and reputation. Torchinsky has been on Jay Leno’s Garage and was a producer on the show as well. He has appeared in many online videos and television shows, including his own, Jason Drives, an internet show featuring millions and millions of views run by Jalopnik, which features Torchinsky driving obscure cars, and newer versions run by The Autopian. Torchinsky is also a stand-up comic who has opened for George Carlin; an artist whose installations have exhibited around the world; and the author of the book Robot, Take the Wheel: The Road to Autonomous Cars and the Lost Art of Driving, and coauthor of Ad Nauseam: A Survivor's Guide to American Consumer Culture. A long-time resident of Los Angeles, CA, Torchinsky returned to his home state, North Carolina. He lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.https://twitter.com/JasonTorchinsky
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Jeremy Wallace is a Professor of Government at Cornell University. He writes on authoritarianism focusing on China, cities, statistics, and climate change. His most recent book is Seeking Truth and Hiding Facts: Information, Ideology, and Authoritarianism in China.https://twitter.com/jerometenk
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Joel Mathis is a freelance writer who lives in Lawrence, Kansas with his wife and son. He spent nine years as a syndicated columnist, co-writing the RedBlueAmerica column as the liberal half of a point-counterpoint duo. His honors include awards for best online commentary from the Online News Association and (twice) from the City and Regional Magazine Association.
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Kelly Kimball is a bilingual journalist and photographer based in New York City by way of Washington, D.C., the San Francisco Bay Area, and Santiago, Chile. Her writing has appeared in Foreign Policy, the San Francisco Chronicle, and DCist.
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Lisa Martine Jenkins is a climate journalist based in Brooklyn. She previously wrote for Protocol, and her work has appeared in The Guardian, The Associated Press, and Civil Eats, among others.
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Noah Millman is a commentator, critic, and filmmaker, and the author of the newsletter, Gideon’s Substack. He is the film and theater critic for Modern Age, and from 2015 to 2022 was a columnist for The Week, and from 2012 to 2017 he was a senior editor at The American Conservative. His writing has appeared in the Op Ed section of The New York Times as well as The New York Times Book Review, Politico, Foreign Policy, USA Today, The New Republic, The Weekly Standard, First Things and the Jewish Review of Books among other publications. He is currently attached to direct his first feature film, Resentment, scheduled to shoot in June of 2023.https://twitter.com/BloggerGideon
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Patrick is a writer and editor in New York. The former Editor-in-Chief of Jalopnik and Editorial Director of The Drive, he covers the future of transportation.https://twitter.com/bypatrickgeorge
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Ryan Cooper is the managing editor at The American Prospect, and author of the book "How Are You Going to Pay for That?: Smart Answers to the Dumbest Question in Politics."https://twitter.com/ryanlcooper
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Scott Lemieux is Assistant Teaching Professor at the University of Washington. He has written about the Supreme Court and American politics for venues including the Guardian, Washington Post, NBC News, and The American Prospect.https://twitter.com/LemieuxLGM
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Zander Abranowicz is a writer and strategist. He has contributed to Travel + Leisure, ELLE Decor, Elite Traveler, and Are.na Annual, and collaborated with photographer William Abranowicz on three books, the latest being "Country Life: Homes of the Catskill Mountains and Hudson Valley." Zander is also the cofounder and strategy director at Abbreviated Projects, a strategic design studio. His monthly newsletter, "Buzzcut," covers travel, style, history, and nature. You can sign up here: https://buzzcut.substack.com/