Erik Olsen
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As seen in:
Medium,
MSN,
The New York Times,
Business Insider,
USA Today,
Clarín (Argentina),
Fast Company,
Quartz,
Scientific American,
Substack
and
Covers:
Science, environment, extreme sports, national news, breaking news
Doesn't Cover:
Politics, relationships.
Visual journalist and producer in Los Angeles. Formerly @nytimes, @qz, @ABCNews Instagram @olsentropy. Once went down to 2000 ft in a sub. Thalassophile.
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Erik Olsen’s Biography
Read Full Bio →Erik Olsen is an award-winning journalist and filmmaker in Los Angeles . He shoots, writes, edits and narrates video stories about interesting stuff...but mostly about science.
Before Quartz. he spent over a decade at The New York Times, including two years at the Times Sr. Video Journalist in Europe, stationed in Berlin.
He's an avid photographer, writer, scuba diver, and drone pilot. He lives in Los Angeles.
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This filmmaker shoots the mountain lions that live near his home in Los Angeles, and this video i...
Interview
See all 11 answers →What was your first job as a journalist?
Intern for the Seattle Weekly
How is social media changing news?
Massive aggregation and presentation of news by niche audiences.
Who's your favorite fictional journalist?
Jimmy Olsen, of course.