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October 2021
Strategies For Accessing Public Records & All About “FOIA” (Fellows Only)
Michael Morisy, co-founder of Muckrock, a Cambridge-based nonprofit specializing in access to public records, will discuss everything from illuminating intelligence agencies to battling for public records act reform. Muckrock works with publications from Vice to Businessweek, seeking to pry information loose from reluctant government agencies. In this session, he will explore some key case studies in accessing public records, review successful techniques for acquiring information (and some less successful), offer a comparison of how to approach local, state, and federal…
Find out more »November 2021
Fellows Mid-Semester Roundtable (Fellows Only)
(Attendance for this session is limited to current KSJ Project Fellows.)
Find out more »KSJ@MIT Fact-Checking Workshop
A virtual workshop that will bring together journalists and editors to learn about fact-checking, with a focus on science journalism.
Find out more »December 2021
The Art of the Book Deal (Fellows Only)
MacKenzie Brady-Watson, of the Stuart Krichevsky Literary Agency and a former research scientist, is a literary agent focusing on adult narrative non-fiction and select Young Adult fiction. She has a great passion for science books. Watson began her publishing career as an intern at Fine Print Literary Management and Farrar, Straus & Giroux. She was an agent with Charlotte Sheedy Literary Agency and New Leaf Literary & Media before joining SKLA in 2016. In her seminar, she’ll answer all your…
Find out more »January 2022
The Making of “Timber Wars” (Fellows Only)
Aaron Scott, producer and host of Oregon Public Broadcasting's "Timber Wars" podcast, takes guests behind the scenes of the Victor K. McElheny Award-winning series. https://www.opb.org/show/timberwars (Attendance for this seminar is limited to current KSJ Project Fellows.)
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