Peter J. Spotts

Pete Spotts has held a variety of positions throughout his career, including staff editor in National News, special-projects editor, National News Editor, and chief editorial writer. In 1987, Spotts shared an award with three Monitor colleagues for a series on the future of nuclear energy following the 1986 nuclear accident at Chornobyl. 

In 2003, he received the American Association for the Advancement of Science’s Science Journalism Award. He was awarded a Knight Science Journalism Fellowship at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for the 1999-2000 academic year and also received a two-week fellowship at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. In 2014, Spotts was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. 

Spotts is a graduate of the University of Miami in Coral Gables, Fla. In his spare time, he enjoys hiking, camping, photography, ham radio, and amateur astronomy.