I’m Ginny, a science editor and occasional writer at the New York Times. I also teach at NYU’s school of journalism.
Before joining the NYT in 2020, I was the deputy editor-in-chief at BuzzFeed News and its founding science editor. And before that, I was a freelance reporter specializing in genetics and neuroscience.
Photo by Justine Cooper
Editing
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Leading Chain of Psych Hospitals Traps Patients for Profit
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How a Small Gender Clinic Landed in a Political Storm
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Honeybees Invaded My House, and No One Would Help
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The Broken Promises of Cord Blood Banks
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A Columbia Doctor's Study Was Pulled. He Kept Publishing Bad Data.
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Halting Progress and Happy Accidents: How mRNA Vaccines Were Made
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Artificial Intelligence Is Learning What It Means to Be Alive
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How Teens Recovered From the ‘TikTok Tics’
"Operating Profits" Series on Overused Procedures (2023)
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They Lost Their Legs. Doctors and Health Care Giants Profited.
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How a Lucrative Surgery Took Off Online and Disfigured Patients
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A Famed Hospital Churns Poor Patients Through Weight-Loss Surgery
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Inside the Booming Business of Cutting Babies’ Tongues
"Profits Over Patients" Series on Nonprofit Hospitals (2022)
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They Were Entitled to Free Care. Hospitals Hounded Them to Pay.
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How a Hospital Chain Used a Poor Neighborhood to Turn Huge Profits
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‘Major Trustee, Please Prioritize’: How NYU’s E.R. Favors the Rich
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How a Sprawling Hospital Chain Ignited Its Own Staffing Crisis
Series on Nursing Home Ratings (2021)
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Phony Diagnoses Hide High Rates of Drugging at Nursing Homes
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How Nursing Homes’ Worst Offenses Are Hidden From the Public
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Maggots, Rape and Yet Five Stars: How U.S. Ratings of Nursing Homes Mislead the Public
Writing
Features
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With Anxiety on the Rise, Some Children Try ‘Exposure Therapy’
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To Solve 3 Cold Cases, This Small County Got a DNA Crash Course
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His DNA Solved A Very Old Jailhouse Rape. The Victim: His Grandmother.
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23 and You: Does that DNA test you bought violate somebody else’s privacy?
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Wake No More: What if you could sleep 50 hours straight and never feel awake?
Essays & Reviews
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Book Review: Does It Make Sense to Call Anyone ‘Normal’?
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That Time I Vented To A Relentlessly Positive Chatbot
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I Asked My Mom Why She Didn't Vaccinate Me
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Book Review: Learning Our Roots, Inside and Out
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Cemetery Review: Death's Eternal Logistics
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Book Review: Reaching Down the Rabbit Hole
