KSJ Fellowships
Fellowships & Awards
KSJ Fellowships
Fellows spend an academic year at MIT delving into a research project and exploring science, technology, and the craft of journalism.
Africa and Middle East Fellowship
A fall-semester science journalism fellowship at MIT inspired by the life and career of Mohammed Yahia.
Local Science Journalism Award
The Victor K. McElheny Award honors outstanding local and regional science journalism with a $10,000 prize.
Events
Upcoming Seminars & Workshops
Book Talk: Melanie Kaplan on Lab Dog: A Beagle and His Human Investigate the Surprising World of Animal Research
Tue, Feb 3, 2026 / 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM UTC-4
More Details & RSVPSeminar: Kate Quinn on Collecting, Stewarding, and Interpreting Human Remains in Museum Collections
Tue, Feb 10, 2026 / 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM UTC-4
More Details & RSVPLatest News
What’s Happening
For Environmental Journalist Paula Moura, Context Is Everything
The 2025-26 KSJ Fellow, a transplant from Brazil to the U.S., sees herself as a bridge of communication between the two countries.
Read More
Yvette Cabrera, On Covering the ‘Broccoli’ of Environmental Beats
Environmental justice reporting can be emotionally heavy and hard to swallow, but “there are some really uplifting stories,” the KSJ Fellow explains.
Read MoreResources & Training
Tools for Science Journalists
Science Editing Handbook
Fact-Checking Project
Science Journalism 101
I’ve come in here with a set of things that I’m familiar with, a set of questions I have about various types of science or different research. But I think what excites me more than access to what I know is access to what I don’t.
– Molly Segal, 2020 KSJ Fellow
You must be logged in to post a comment.