Writer. Science Journalist.
TV and Podcast Host. Artist.
Arielle Duhaime-Ross is a freelance science journalist, artist, podcast and TV host based in Portland, OR.
They previously worked Vox.com, The Verge, Quartz, Scientific American, and most recently at VICE News.
Extended Bio
At VICE News, Arielle wore a lot of hats. On screen, they hosted TV segments for VICE News Reports, VICE's nightly news show. They also produced and hosted a TV talk show called Queer Sports, which tackled the many issues LGBTQ Athletes face in sports.
Behind the mic, Arielle was the full-time host of VICE News' weekly flagship news podcast, VICE News Reports, which took listeners right into the heart of the action, using documentary-style reporting techniques. Arielle also developed and launched a podcast named A Show About Animals, which tackled the controversy surrounding animal language research and Koko the gorilla in its first season. "Animals," as the team called the show internally, won the gold audio award in the 2022 AAAS Kavli Science journalism awards.
Prior to hosting podcasts and TV shows for VICE News, Arielle was the host of Vox Media’s Reset, a podcast about technology, science, design and power.
Arielle was also the first climate change correspondent in American nightly TV news. During their first stint at VICE News, (before joining Vox and returning to VICE News a year later...) their reporting appeared on the HBO version of VICE News Tonight, the Emmy award-winning nightly newscast, where Arielle covered the politics of climate change, life-threatening instances of environmental contamination, and the effect that global warming is already having on communities worldwide.
Arielle's climate reporting was recognized by the National Association of Science Writers in 2019. That year, they were awarded the NASW's Science in Society Journalism Award, in the science features category, for a VICE News story they wrote about a predominantly black community living in a poor rural region of Alabama, where failing septic tanks and pools of raw sewage had increased the risk of hookworm and other infectious diseases.
That same year, Arielle also received the Silver 2019 AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Award in the Spot News/Feature Reporting video category for a VICE News Tonight segment about the unexpected way glaciers are melting in Greenland.
Prior to joining VICE, Duhaime-Ross was a science reporter at The Verge, where they were granted the 2015 Herb Lampert Science in Society Emerging Journalist award for their coverage of a radical 1950s scientist who suggested memory could be stored outside the brain. Duhaime-Ross has written for Scientific American, Nature Medicine, The Atlantic, and Quartz.
Originally from Montreal, Canada, Arielle grew up daydreaming about working with animals and becoming a scientist. They saw that dream through (somewhat!) and obtained a bachelor’s degree in zoology. Their stint as a scientist is what led them to fall in love with science communication. After college, they went on to obtain their master’s degree in science, health, and environmental reporting from New York University's journalism school.
Arielle also has two CEGEP degrees — degrees no one has heard of outside of Quebec — in classical music and health sciences. Their instrument was the classical guitar, which no amount of convincing will get them to play in public.
When they aren't hosting podcasts or writing stories, they spend most of their time drawing comics, riding their bike, camping, and training their two chihuahuas, Reggie and June.
They previously worked Vox.com, The Verge, Quartz, Scientific American, and most recently at VICE News.
Extended Bio
At VICE News, Arielle wore a lot of hats. On screen, they hosted TV segments for VICE News Reports, VICE's nightly news show. They also produced and hosted a TV talk show called Queer Sports, which tackled the many issues LGBTQ Athletes face in sports.
Behind the mic, Arielle was the full-time host of VICE News' weekly flagship news podcast, VICE News Reports, which took listeners right into the heart of the action, using documentary-style reporting techniques. Arielle also developed and launched a podcast named A Show About Animals, which tackled the controversy surrounding animal language research and Koko the gorilla in its first season. "Animals," as the team called the show internally, won the gold audio award in the 2022 AAAS Kavli Science journalism awards.
Prior to hosting podcasts and TV shows for VICE News, Arielle was the host of Vox Media’s Reset, a podcast about technology, science, design and power.
Arielle was also the first climate change correspondent in American nightly TV news. During their first stint at VICE News, (before joining Vox and returning to VICE News a year later...) their reporting appeared on the HBO version of VICE News Tonight, the Emmy award-winning nightly newscast, where Arielle covered the politics of climate change, life-threatening instances of environmental contamination, and the effect that global warming is already having on communities worldwide.
Arielle's climate reporting was recognized by the National Association of Science Writers in 2019. That year, they were awarded the NASW's Science in Society Journalism Award, in the science features category, for a VICE News story they wrote about a predominantly black community living in a poor rural region of Alabama, where failing septic tanks and pools of raw sewage had increased the risk of hookworm and other infectious diseases.
That same year, Arielle also received the Silver 2019 AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Award in the Spot News/Feature Reporting video category for a VICE News Tonight segment about the unexpected way glaciers are melting in Greenland.
Prior to joining VICE, Duhaime-Ross was a science reporter at The Verge, where they were granted the 2015 Herb Lampert Science in Society Emerging Journalist award for their coverage of a radical 1950s scientist who suggested memory could be stored outside the brain. Duhaime-Ross has written for Scientific American, Nature Medicine, The Atlantic, and Quartz.
Originally from Montreal, Canada, Arielle grew up daydreaming about working with animals and becoming a scientist. They saw that dream through (somewhat!) and obtained a bachelor’s degree in zoology. Their stint as a scientist is what led them to fall in love with science communication. After college, they went on to obtain their master’s degree in science, health, and environmental reporting from New York University's journalism school.
Arielle also has two CEGEP degrees — degrees no one has heard of outside of Quebec — in classical music and health sciences. Their instrument was the classical guitar, which no amount of convincing will get them to play in public.
When they aren't hosting podcasts or writing stories, they spend most of their time drawing comics, riding their bike, camping, and training their two chihuahuas, Reggie and June.