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Food Boot Camp, Spring 2009

Tuesday, March 24, 2009 - Friday, March 27, 2009

 

Journalists will be covering food and food issues as never before, and to help reporters, editors and producers make sense of these issues, MIT's Knight Science Journalism Fellowships is offering a four-day course on some of the most important food-related issues. This will be an intensive course -- all day, every day -- devoted primarily to discussions and lectures. Just 12 journalists will be admitted through a competition, to join the 11 Knight Fellows already in residence at MIT.
 
The Boot Camp will teach the basics of the issues and address the underlying science and the overlying social, economic and political factors. And it will explore connections among the different issues.

People Attending this Bootcamp

Lynn Addison
Senior Editor, Features , National Geographic magazine
Singeli Agnew
Freelance Reporter and Filmmaker , Berkeley, California
Philip Brasher
Correspondent , Des Moines Register
Lee Dean
Food editor , Minneapolis Star Tribune
Sarah Elton
Freelance , Toronto, Canada
Daemon Fairless
CBC Radio Producer , Toronto, Canada
Georgina Gustin
Reporter , St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Jerry Hirsch
Staff Writer , Los Angeles Times
Katherine Hobson
Senior Editor, Health/Medicine , U.S. News and World Report
Mary Clare Jalonick
Staff Writer , The Associated Press
Lyndsey Layton
National Staff Writer , Washington Post
Jacques Leslie
Freelance Author/Journalist , Mill Valley, California
Alice Park
Writer , TIME magazine
Miranda Van Gelder
Features Editor , Martha Stewart Living
Cheryl Weinstock
Freelance
Elizabeth Weise
Science Reporter , USA Today