Judy Benson
Health/Science/Environment Reporter
j.benson@theday.com
(860) 701-4337

Judy Benson covers health, science and the environment. In 2006 she was named the New England Press Association Journalist of the Year. She has won numerous other awards, including a first place for environmental reporting and second place for health reporting in 2008 from the New England Press Association. In the past year she has attended a Knight Science Journalism Fellowship on medical evidence at MIT and the New York Times Institute on Environmental Reporting, and is a member of the Society of Environmental Journalists and the Association of Health Care Journalists. Before starting her current beat in 2003, she covered education and New London city government.