Editing | Carmen Drahl

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CARMEN DRAHL

I offer developmental editing of news, features, and opinion essays for media outlets and subject matter experts.

My clients have included National Public Radio's Goats and Soda, Science News, Science, and Chemical & Engineering News.

Click the images to read selected stories that I've edited. Additional examples available upon request.

A painting of herring by German wildlife artist Paul Flanderky PAUL FLANDERKY/ALAMY

Sharon Macharia read in a Kenyan newspaper that baby bottles would be banned. As a working mom, she depends on bottles to feed her youngest baby. She was happy to learn that the report was untrue — although the government is introducing a new law to clamp down on ads that promote the use of baby formula.
Thomas Bwire for NPR

Though people with long COVID can struggle with all sorts of different symptoms, scientists are now getting a better idea of the varied factors that may underlie the disease.
KLAUS VEDFELT/DIGITALVISION/GETTY IMAGES PLUS

Human population growth likely spurred the extinction of Madagascar’s elephant birds, illustrated here. VELIZAR SIMEONVSKI

The bonang is a collection of small gongs played in a Javanese gamelan. In a new experiment, people preferred chords containing bonanglike notes that broke Western music theory's rules for beautiful harmony.
IBENK.88/ISTOCK/GETTY IMAGES PLUS

A wild bird in Texas probably passed the H5N1 bird flu to a dairy cow, starting the current outbreak. Birds and cattle frequently interact, as in this photo from a farm in Mexico.
DARIOGAONA/E+/GETTY IMAGES

Letters inscribed along the edges of this slate slab from the 5th century B.C. are closely related to the Phoenician alphabet, which was hugely influential Latin, Spanish and English writing systems.
EUROPA PRESS VIA AP

Carolina Reid getting her blood drawn as part of a clinical trial for new experimental malaria vaccine based upon live malaria parasites.
Carolina Reid

A teenage girl wearing a face mask, head scarf and long black robe listens to a math teacher at a tutoring center in Kabul. The center was established by a women's rights activist to circumvent a Taliban ban on girls attending secondary school. The activist said she has informal permission by Taliban authorities to run the center as long as teenage girls abide by a strict dress code.
Diaa Hadid/NPR

Military surgeon Jiang Yanyong, the doctor who defied the government and spoke the truth of SARS in 2003, talks at a forum on the 10th anniversary of SARS held in Beijing. He died this past week at age 91.
Simon Song/South China Morning Post via Getty Images

Macon Morehouse, News Director, Science News

"Carmen is one of my go-to freelance editors. She is collaborative and respects a writer’s expertise and voice. She’s also versatile, able to handle a broad range of topics and ways of presenting a story, from quick briefs to more in-depth pieces."

Ready to work together?

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