How Words, Images, and Malaria Came Together in National Geographic

“It begins with a bite, a painless bite.” So starts “Bedlam in the Blood,” the July 2007 National Geographic cover story about malaria that won the 120-year-old magazine a 2008 National Magazine Award for photojournalism. The online story includes illuminating field notes from photographer John Stanmeyer and writer Michael Finkel, but how does a feature like this come about and come together? We asked National Geographic editor-in-chief Chris Johns:

This story is one that I wanted to do quite badly.

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