Deborah Blum

Deborah Blum is a journalist, author, professor and blogger. She is a professor of journalism at University of Wisconsin-Madison as well as a columnist for New York Times and the author behind Wired's Elemental blog.

Biography
Deborah Blum was born in Urbana, Illinois, U.S. on October 19, 1954. She grew up in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Bristol, England, and Athens, Georgia. Blum attended University of Georgia, where she was the editor of its student newspaper. She worked as a reporter covering police, fires, courts, and other general assignment beats in Georgia, Florida and California before she turned to science writing. She was on the staffs of the Macon Telegraph, the St. Petersburg Times and the Fresno Bee, among other publications.

She received a Masters in Environmental Journalism from University of Wisconsin–Madison.

Elemental
Deborah Blum write the Elemental blog for Wired magazine. While falling in the science category, Blum's main focus is poison. While informative and engrossing, some of her articles are quite unnerving. Two of Blum's recent articles are About That Tainted Seafood In Texas and Our Toxicity Experiment in West Virginia.

Offline Ventures
Blum is a Pulitzer prize winning journalist and a New York Times Bestselling author.