Mark Johnson
Washington, D.C.
National reporter covering science.
Education: University of Toronto BA English Literature
As a 2016-2017 O'Brien Fellow at Marquette University, he reported on infectious diseases in Kenya, Uganda and Brazil. He covered small-town government and corruption at The Providence Journal-Bulletin from 1994 to 2000, serving for two years as the newspaper's Massachusetts Bureau Manager. Before coming to Providence, he worked at The Rockford Register Star, The Haverhill (Mass.) Gazette and the weekly Provincetown (Mass.) Advocate. A University of Toronto graduate, his first novel, Though The Earth Gives Way, was published in January 2022.