For 14 years he was the environment writer at Newsday, where he was a principal member of two reporting teams that were finalists for the Pulitzer Prize. His stories on cancer epidemiology in 2003 won both of the best-known science journalism prizes in the United States. He is a co-author of the book "Toxic Deception" and is working on a book for Bantam/Random House that intertwines three story lines: the history of environmental cancer epidemiology, the half-century saga of the Toms River, N.J., childhood cancer cluster, and current research into gene-environment interactions. Fagin has been a Templeton-Cambridge Fellow in Science and Religion at Cambridge University and was president of SEJ in 2003 and 2004.