Jeff Foust is a senior staff writer for SpaceNews, joining the publication in 2014. He covers civil and commercial space topics, ranging from NASA programs to developments in the entrepreneurial NewSpace field. He has more than a decade of experience writing about space policy, commercial space, and related topics. In 2003, he started The Space Review, a weekly publication of longform articles and commentary on a wide range of space topics that continues to operate to this day. 

He earned a Ph.D. in planetary sciences from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1999 and a B.S. with honors in geophysics and planetary science from the California Institute of Technology in 1993.  He received the Press Award from the National Space Club and Foundation in 2018.

In this episode Ben chats to Jeff about his career, Space News, journalism and what the headline might be when humanity gets back to the moon!

00:18 Episode 30: Jeff Foust

02:07 What is Space News?

02:40 Focus of Space News

04:01 Demographic of readers

05:00 Future of printed media

06:31 How do stories get picked?

07:57 Overlap of stories ie Starlink

09:40 Handling of good and bad news

12:50 Anything Jeff wouldn’t publish?  

15:00 Academic background enhance journalism?

15:55 Jeff’s passion for space

17:22 Space Tourism

20:21 Keeping public engaged

22:50 What has Jeff learned about Space industry over his career

25:10 Jeff's moon landing headline?

26:50 Space Review

28:38 Productivity

29:34 What’s going on in news?

31:28  Wrap Up and Social Media’s

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