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Christopher Cox

Editor at Orion Magazine and New York Times Magazine
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Graduation Year: 2021 (Project Year)
Bio: Christopher Cox has written about politics, business, books, and science for The New York Times Magazine, GQ, Harper’s, Wired, and Slate. His book about the psychology of deadlines, The Deadline Effect, was published in 2021. In addition to the Knight Science Journalism Fellowship, he has been a visiting scholar at NYU’s Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute and a Logan Nonfiction Fellow. He was formerly the chief editor of Harper’s Magazine and executive editor of GQ, where he worked on stories that won the Pulitzer Prize, the PEN Literary Award for Journalism, and multiple National Magazine Awards. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife and two daughters.
Location: Brooklyn, NY
Website: https://deadline-effect.com

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by Julia Vaz / January 16th 2026 / Fellowship Life

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.

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by Ashley D’Souza / January 2nd 2026 / Fellowship Life

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.

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