Morgan McFall-Johnsen - Business Insider
Morgan McFall-Johnsen is a science reporter at Business Insider. She covers climate change and space, as well health and medicine and environmental issues.
Email her at mmcfalljohnsen@businessinsider.com and follow her on X @MorganMJohnsen.
Expertise
Climate change and climate-crisis solutions
Extreme weather (heat, drought, floods, fires, hurricanes)
NASA and other space agencies
Commercial space industry (SpaceX, Blue Origin, satellite constellations)
Astronomy and physics (planets, galaxies, the sun, black holes, gravitational waves)
Morgan has interviewed astronauts aboard the International Space Station and published the first detailed accounts of early COVID-19 outbreaks on cruise ships.
She has appeared on NBC LX, Scripps News, Sirius XM, C-SPAN, and NPR’s Code Switch to speak about climate change, extreme weather, Mars missions, the space race, and far-right extremism. She’s previously written for Backpacker Magazine, Outside Business Journal (formerly SNEWS), and Popular Science.
She holds a Bachelor of Science in Journalism from Northwestern University, where she also studied environmental policy and French. She was a 2022 Logan Science Journalism Fellow at the Marine Biological Laboratory and a 2023 Columbia Energy Journalism Fellow.
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