Carmen Nobel is a longtime journalist who specializes in making academic research accessible and useful to news reporters. She serves as an editorial consultant for SciLine, based at the American Association for the Advancement of Science, where she is building a series of evidence-based reporting guides to help local journalists cover the 2026 midterm elections.
Previously, Nobel spent eight years as program director and editor-in-chief of The Journalist’s Resource at Harvard Kennedy School’s Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy. Her writing has appeared in a wide range of business and news outlets, including Harvard Business School’s Working Knowledge, Forbes,The Boston Globe, Boston Magazine, The Improper Bostonian, Inc., NPR Science Friday, PC Magazine, eWeek, and the Air Force Times.

Nobel briefed NPF Widening the Pipeline fellows in September 2026: Building an Evidence-Based Midterm Reporting Strategy.