David Secko is an Associate Professor of Journalism at Concordia University (Montréal). He previously worked as a journalist for The Scientist magazine and Vancouver’s Tyee. Dave now studies science journalism as a scholar and is the leader of the Concordia Science Journalism Project (www.csjp.ca). He won a University Research Award for his research contributions in 2011, the Dean’s Award for excellence as a new scholar in 2010 and was awarded the Hal Straight Gold Medal in Journalism from UBC’s School of Journalism in 2006. Dave was originally trained as a microbiologist at the University of British Columbia.