Rick Gore
Rick Gore (born Richard Gore) is a former American writer, science editor and Senior Assistant Editor for National Geographic. He is credited with nineteen cover stories with the magazine. Gore is also an executive producer of theatre and a playwright. Early life Gore was born to Jack Gore, a former Fort Lauderdale News editor, and mother Betty Gore. He is the younger brother of the late Christopher Gore, who wrote the screenplay for the 1980 musical film, Fame, receiving an Oscar nomination for the Best Original Screenplay. Education Gore attended Northwestern University and received his master's degree in journalism. He also completed the John S. Knight Journalism Fellowships at Stanford in 1988 Career National Geographic Before working for National Geographic, Gore was a reporter for Life magazine from 1969 to 1972. He joined the staff of National Geographic in 1974, where he remained until taking an early retirement in 2001. Gore produced more than sixty feature articles, serving much of his career there as Science Editor and is credited with nineteen cover stories with the magazine. Multiple articles were written by Gore on topics such as human evolution, for instance the August 2002 article titled "New Find", about the early