Alan Yu is a reporter for the Pulse, a national health and science show at WHYY, the public radio station in Philadelphia. Previously, he was a Kroc fellow at NPR, and a reporter for the South China Morning Post in Hong Kong. In 2014, he was part of the team covering the pro democracy protests in Hong Kong that went on for months. He has bachelor’s and master’s degrees in journalism from Northwestern University, with specialties in magazine journalism and science reporting.