Cicadas attract various types of media enquiries when they emerge. Examples of Media Contacts follow. Future additions to this website will include links to these articles…

Print & Online Media (66): 1) The Washington Post climate/environment section (Darryl Fears), 2) Washington Post, Op Ed (Chris Simon),  3) NY Times Science section (Cara Giamo), 4) The Atlantic (Katie Wu) 5) Scientific American print version (Katie Wong), 6) National Geographic Family (Jamie Kiffel-Alcheh), 7) SuperScience Magazine (Scholastic,, Hailee Romain), 8) Live Science (Mindy Weisberger), 9) Reuters (Andrea Januta, Carlos Barria), 10)  Wired (Eric Niiler), 11) Scientific American (Fachel Nuwer, focusing on the fungus), 12 ) Swiss Media (Tobias Meier), 13) bioGraphic Magazine California Academy of Sciences (Jane Hu), 14) Hartford Courant (Jesse Leavenworth), 15)Country Living (Arrica SanSone). 16) UCONN Daily Campus (Grace McFadden), 17) Appalachian Mountain Club (Jake Freudberg); 18) USA today feature on Gene Kritsky (Keith Biery Golick),  19) GW Hachet (Nicholas Pasion), 20) Science Magazine piece on citizen science (Ian Graber Stiehl), 20) NY Times (Eleamor Lutz), 21) Southerly Magazine (Jordan Hernandez), 21) The Hindu (top national newspaper in India), Shubashree Desikan. 22) Fox News Digital. Julia Musto. Science and Tech reporter, 23) The Advocate (Baton Rouge), 24) America On-line, 25) Associated Press, 26) The Boston Globe, 27) BBC Earth Web Series, 28) CTV news, Toronto, Canada, 29) Genome News Network, 30) Inverse.com/Science, 31) National Geographic Magazine, 32) The New York Times, Long Island Edition, 33) Nature, 34) NY Times learning network, 35) New Scientist (UK), 36) Neuue Zücher Zeitung, 37) Newark Star Ledger, 38) Newsday (multiple years), 39) New Zealand Hearld, 40) The North Georgian Newspaper,  41) Nova Science Series, 42) Popular Science, 43) Reuters News Service, 44) Scientific American, 45) Science News, 46) The Scientist, 47) Science Magazine, 48) Smithsonian Magazine, 49) Time Magazine, 50) United Press International, 51) VICE News, 52) Voice of America, 53) Vox News, 54) The Wall Street Journal, 55) The Washington Post, 56) The Conversation (290,401 reads); 57) NBC Digital News (Sebastian Echeverri), 58) Popular Science (Purbita Saha), 59) CNET (Leslie Katz), 60) Yahoo Life/Yahoo News (Rachel Bender),  61) NJ.com (Steven Rodas), 62) Science Magazine, You Tube Channel (Meagan Cantwell), 63) UCONN Today (Elaina Hancock), 64) Scientific American (Jillian Mock), 65) NY Times Breaking News (Jesus Jiménez), 66) Bloomberg News (Marie Patino).

Radio (6) see also podcasts:  France Inter-Radio (Camille Crosnier), 2) Living on Earth (PRI), 3) National Public Radio, NRP Here and Now; 4) RNZ National (“Our Changing World”, Allison Balance; and “Afternoons with Jim Mora”), 5) WAMU Radio (American University), 6) WNYC Radio.

Podcasts: (6) 1) Science Vs (Michelle Dang, Wendy Zuckerman); 2) National Geographic- “Overheard” (Menaka Wilhelm and Peter Gwin), 3) Washington Post Audio Podcast (Bishop Sand, Focusing on the Scientists), 4) KUOW NPR Seattle (Dacia Clay), 5) Big Picture Science (SETI, Molly Bentley, Seth Shostak), 6) BYU Radio,

Television (7): 1) PBS News Hour (John Yang, Diane Lincoln); 2) NECN/NBC10 Boston (Courtney Seymour);  3) News12, Downstate NY & Long Island (Michelle Romano), 4) Japan TV- NHK network (Tetsutaro Soi), 5) Japan Television Workshop, 6) CBS TV, 7) NBC TV News, Boston

Public lecture presentations (3):  Washington Entomological Society, 2) Connecticut Entomological Society, 3) North Carolina Museum of Science

Volunteer Consultant for (14): 1) 3D Art project involving cicada timbals (Jake Couri), 2) Cicada Dance- the musical (Malcolm Ruhl), 4) Connecticut Public Radio “Disrupted” episode plan (James Szkobel-Wolff),  5) Information for Dan Gilrein (Extension Entomologist Long Island), 6) NY Times Fact Checker (Gita Daneshjoo), 7) WaPo fact checker (Meryl Kornfield), 8) Zoë Schlanger (freelance journalist), 9) Research into the reflective properties of cicada wings (Alexander Bürger, Technical University of Vienna, Austria), 10) York PA Daily Record (Mike Argento), 11) Wild Space video documentary (Deborah Brewer). 12) Otago Science Museum, 13) National Museum of NZ TePaPa, 14) Radio Lab (WNYC), 15) Book by Brooke Jarvis, journalist on insect decline, 16) fact checked children’s book on periodical cicadas for Kenton R. Hill, 17) Advised Carnegie Melon Dramatic Writing graduate student Hannah Shepard for a screen play for the Alfred P. Sloan Script Competition; mentored high school student Alexis Ma for research project involving cicada endosymbionts.