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Science journalism was little known in Cuba when Iramis Alonso wrote her thesis on the specialized fi eld in 1990. That year, journalism degree from the University of Havana in hand, she set off to Cuba’s eastern countryside to complete two years of social service reporting for local, regional and national print media. Living in the mountains of Holguín, a typical day for the cub reporter took her to caves, forests and fi elds for stories on the intersection of science, culture and the environment. Alonso credits this formative experience with igniting her passion for investigative and science journalism, setting her on a unique career path as a journalist and editor specializing in the sciences writ large: climate change, astronomy, mathematics and other hard sciences, engineering, information technologies and social sciences, among others.