The Information features editor Nick Wingfield sent out the following to the staff:
Hi Team
We’re thrilled to announce that Amy Dockser Marcus, a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter from the Wall Street Journal and three-time book author, is joining The Information to cover health and science for Weekend. Over her career, Amy has become one of the most authoritative figures in journalism on the subject of how scientific advances are reshaping society. In recent years, her work for the Journal has included thought-provoking stories about fertility, DNA testing, gene editing and longevity (including tech billionaires’ quest to live to 150).
Amy’s career in journalism started at the American Lawyer. After joining the Journal, she covered legal issues before spending seven years in the paper’s Tel Aviv bureau covering Israel and the Middle East. She wrote two books inspired by her reporting in the region, “The View from Nebo: How Archaeology is Rewriting the Bible and Reshaping the Middle East” and “Jerusalem 1913: The Origins of the Arab-Israeli Conflict.”
Amy won the Pulitzer Prize for beat reporting in 2005 for a series of stories for the Journal that shined a light on the health, financial and other struggles faced by cancer survivors and their families. In 2014, she won the American Association for the Advancement of Science’s Kavli Science Journalism Award for excellence in online reporting for a 10-part multimedia project, “Trials: A Desperate Fight to Save Kids & Change Science.” That series—which focused on the challenges faced by children with rare diseases, their parents and scientists—led to Amy’s 2023 book, “We the Scientists: How a Daring Team of Parents and Doctors Forged a New Path for Medicine.” In 2024, Amy won a New York Press Club award for her coverage of fertility and DNA testing.
Amy has a master of bioethics degree from Harvard Medical School. She lives in Boston and will continue to report from there for us. Her first day is this coming Monday. Please join us in welcoming Amy!
—Nick and Jessica
