Frederik Joelving

Frederik Joelving is a contributing editor at Retraction Watch. He worked for more than a decade as a health reporter and editor for Reuters, first on staff in New York and later remotely from Denmark and India. His stories, many of them investigating corruption in science and the health care industry, have also appeared in The New York Times, Science, The BMJ, Slate, VICE News, MedPage Today and elsewhere. He came to Retraction Watch from Medicinske Tidsskrifter, a Danish media company, where he was a managing editor. Before becoming a journalist, he worked briefly as a high school teacher and a ghostwriter for a drug company. He has an M.S. in biology from the University of Copenhagen and an M.A. in journalism from the Science, Health and Environmental Reporting Program at New York University.