Esther Nakkazi (’08) is a freelance journalist who lives and works in Uganda, where she covers health and environment. Her blog Uganda Sciegirl addresses a wide range of healthcare issues and scientific research in East Africa. Before arriving at the Knight Fellowship, she had been working as a general assignment reporter at a weekly newspaper […]
Natasha Mitchell ’06
Natasha Mitchell is an Australian radio journalist and currently the host of Life Matters, an Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) morning show. Its tagline reads: “Life, but not always as you know it”. Social issues are relatively new reporting territory for Mitchell. During her undergrad years, she studied engineering. After completing a graduate degree in science […]
ADAM ROGERS ’03
Before he became a science editor at Wired magazine or even a KSJ fellow, Adam Rogers was correspondent at Newsweek‘s DC news bureau. He’d been there for almost a decade, writing about a mix of news, technology, and politics. However, that meant spending relatively little time learning and writing about science. The thing he remembers […]
HEPENG JIA ’12
Hepeng Jia has big plans for the future. He entered into his Knight Fellowship year with an impressive number of credits at both Chinese media outlets and international science magazines like Nature and, he says, graduated with a deeper understanding of science policy and its effects on science communication. “Knight offered a lot of autonomy of imagination […]
CYNTHIA GRABER, ’13
Cynthia Graber is the co-host of Gastropod, a podcast about the science of food. Since Gastropod is a self-published project, Graber has been working “startup hours” editing the episodes and promoting the podcast. She has also been doing freelance work for magazines on the side. When she joined the Knight Science Journalism Fellowship in ’12-13, […]
DEBBIE PONCHNER ’03
Debbie Ponchner, editor of Scientific American Español, hails from Costa Rica, where she got her start as a staff reporter at a newspaper called La Nación. “Before the fellowship I was already writing about health and genetics,” she said. Although most of her stories ran in the health and features sections, Ponchner covered early genome […]