Mark Hertsgaard

Mark Hertsgaard (born 1956) is an American journalist, the co-founder and executive director of Covering Climate Now. He is the environment correspondent for ''The Nation'', and the author of seven non-fiction books, including ''Earth Odyssey'' (1998) ''and Hot: Living Through the Next Fifty Years on Earth'' (2011).

He has covered climate change, politics, economics, the press, and music since 1989. His best-known work as an author is ''On Bended Knee: The Press and the Reagan Presidency'' (1988), which described the way the Reagan White House "deployed raw power and conventional wisdom to intimidate Washington's television newsrooms." He has also written for magazines and newspapers such as ''The Guardian'', ''Vanity Fair'', ''Scientific American'',''Time'', ''Harper's'', and ''Le Monde''. He has been a commentator for the public radio programs Morning Edition, Marketplace, and Living on Earth, and taught writing at Johns Hopkins and the University of California, Berkeley. Hertsgaard lives in San Francisco. Provided by Wikipedia