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Eric Berger
Eric Berger has been a reporter and editor in Houston for more than two decades. With a background in astronomy and a master’s degree in journalism, he has written mostly about science and, more recently, spaceflight. After a long career at the Houston Chronicle, he joined Ars Technica in 2015 as the website’s senior space editor, covering SpaceX, NASA and everything beyond. For his reporting since then, he won the 2015 NewSpace Journalism award from the Space Frontier Foundation and a 2015 Space Pioneer award from the National Space Society. A certified meteorologist, he also maintains a widely read weather forecasting website for the greater Houston area, Space City Weather. He was a Pulitzer prize finalist for his coverage of Hurricane Ike at the Houston Chronicle in 2008.
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