Scott Carney

Who is Scott Carney?

Scott Carney is an American investigative journalist. He reported from Chennai, India between 2006–2009 but currently resides in Los Angeles. He contributes stories on a variety of medical, technological and ethical issues to Wired Magazine, Mother Jones, Playboy, Foreign Policy, Details and National Public Radio. His first book The Red Market: On the trail of the world's organ brokers, bone thieves, blood farmers and child traffickers was published by William Morrow/Harper Collins in June 2011. Carney holds a number of academic and professional appointments including as a contributing editor at Wired, a senior fellow at the Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism at Brandeis University, and as a judge for the Payne Award for Ethics in Journalism.