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    Nicholas St. Fleur

    Award-winning Science Journalist and a Children's STEM Author

    Nicholas St. Fleur is an award-winning science and health journalist based in the Washington, D.C. area. He previously worked for STAT, The New York Times, and The Atlantic. At STAT, he reported on the intersection of race, medicine, and the life sciences. He also hosted the health equity podcast "Color Code" and emceed & moderated summits and other live events. He has interviewed Dr. Anthony Fauci, pop star Nick Jonas, 23andMe CEO Anne Wojcicki, and former surgeon general Dr. Jerome Adams live on stage.

    A feature he wrote about “hot spots of death” in the U.S., where young men are dying at higher rates from colorectal cancer, won the 2023 June L. Biedler Prize for Cancer Journalism. As part of the story, St. Fleur documented his own colonoscopy, which was featured on Good Morning America. The video was also awarded an EPPY award for Best Enterprise Video, which the judges said was “Impressive journalism! Interesting, factual, touching, informative and personal.”

    St. Fleur has also won the 2021 Evert Clark/Seth Payne Award for Young Science Journalists and the 2024 Lazarex Cancer Foundation’s Disruptor Award for his reporting on diversity in clinical trials.

    Before joining STAT in 2020 as a Knight-Wallace Fellow to report on racial health inequities during the COVID-19 pandemic, St. Fleur was a freelance journalist covering archaeology, paleontology, space, and other curiosities of the cosmos. His reporting on Lithuanian mummies earned him the 2018 Gene S. Stuart Award from the Society for American Archaeology. At The New York Times, he was a lead reporter covering the 2017 Great American Eclipse.

    St. Fleur also loves to write about science for kids. He is the author of the children’s book "Did You Know? Dinosaur" (DK Publishing and the Smithsonian), and has written several cover stories for The New York Times for Kids on topics from dinosaurs and great white sharks to exoplanets and the Perseverance Mars rover.

    His work has appeared in Scientific American, Science, NPR, NatGeo for Kids, The San Jose Mercury News, and The Monterey County Herald. St. Fleur holds a B.S. in biology from Cornell University and is a graduate of the Science Communication Program at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

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