Betsy Mason

Betsy Mason is a freelance science journalist, instructor in the UC Santa Cruz Science Communication Program, and co-author of All Over the Map: A Cartographic Odyssey (National Geographic, 2018). She was a Knight Science Journalism fellow at MIT (2015-16) and an Alicia Patterson fellow (2022-23).

Betsy has worked as senior science editor at WIRED and was an award-winning science reporter at the Contra Costa Times in the San Francisco Bay Area. She is a graduate of the UCSC SciCom Program and has written about science and cartography for publications including National Geographic, The New York Times, Nature, Science, and Scientific American. Before becoming a journalist, Betsy was a geologist, and has a master’s degree in geology from Stanford University.