Dave Mosher

Science journalist. Web nerd. Infinitely curious.

Dave Mosher combines his training and experience in science and journalism — paired with infinite curiosity — to transform the often intangible universe of research into accessible, richly crafted and thought-provoking content.

Dave Mosher in New York City

Mosher is a contributor to Wired Science (Wired.com's science news section), community manager of Wired Science Blogs and an editor for The Time Hack project by Matthew Danzico. He also dabbles in photography, video, web development, graphic design and other nerdery.

Mosher is available for select freelance writing, multimedia and consulting opportunities.

The skinny:

  • freelances for Wired, National Geographic News, Scientific American, Popular Mechanics and other outlets
  • curated and helped expand The Simons Foundation's websites, SimonsFoundation.org and SFARI.org
  • launched and produced Discovery Space, the Discovery Channel's first exclusive multimedia content hub about space and astronomy (now part of Discovery News)
  • wrote breaking news and features, covered NASA's robotic spaceflight programs, chased space shuttles and developed multimedia content as a staff writer for SPACE.com and LiveScience.com
  • crafted articles for more than 6 million pairs of eyes while assisting with DISCOVER magazine's website production
  • worked with Research Communications at Ohio State University to cultivate an inside understanding of the public information world
  • interned with Fermilab public affairs and reported daily news about the world's (then) most powerful particle accelerator; also contributed to symmetry magazine
  • broke into journalism as a writer, photographer, editor and teaching assistant for The Lantern, Ohio State University's student-run newspaper, and launched its first-ever science section

Dave Mosher is a proud Ohio-to-New York City transplant and feels weird referring to himself in the third person, but does so anyway for the sake of search engine optimization. To send him an e-mail, click the cartoon face.