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Anna Rothschild

science journalist

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
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Source revisionMay 19, 2026
Entity authorityQ58754610 ↗
Source-derived summary

Anna Rothschild is a science journalist. She was awarded the 2016 AAAS Kavli Gold Award for Children's Science News and received the American Institute of Physics' 2012 Science Communication Award for New Media, and their 2015 award for Broadcast/New Media.

Life

She graduated from Brown University, and New York University. She was a journalist for The Washington Post. She was a senior producer for FiveThirtyEight.

She hosted Anna’s Science Magic Show Hooray, a video series from The Washington Post. She created Gross Science, a YouTube series from NOVA and PBS Digital Studios.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Anna Rothschild” as science journalist. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2016, 2012, 2015—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Anna, Rothschild and science can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the people & ideas register because the source frames it as science journalist. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 19, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q58754610. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2016, 2012 and 2015.

Critical limits

A concise life account rarely captures disputed attribution, private networks or the changing language used to describe a career. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

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  • Locating cited institutions
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This entry incorporates text from “Anna Rothschild” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.