Morning Panel: The Present and Future of Science Journalism

Mary-Rose Abraham is an independent multimedia journalist based in Bangalore, India. Her stories have been featured in BBC News, National Geographic, The Guardian, Deutsche Welle, Earth Island Journal, and Vice. She is the co-creator and co-host of “Scrolls & Leaves,” a world history, science and cultures podcast that has been featured by Spotify. Before moving to India, she was a staff producer at ABC News in New York, reported and produced for NPR, and was a researcher at NBC News. Abraham grew up in Los Angeles and has an undergraduate degree in Biology from UCLA and master’s degree (with honors) in Journalism from Columbia University.

Pam Belluck is a New York Times staff writer whose honors include a Pulitzer Prize and the Victor Cohn Prize for Excellence in Medical Science Reporting. Her work has been chosen for The Best American Science Writing. Her book, “Island Practice,” about an unusual doctor, is in development for a TV series.

Akin Jimoh Knight Fellow MIT (’01), the Chief Editor of Nature Africa, was a Mentor/Anglophone Africa Coordinator (‘06–‘13) WFSJ Science Journalism Cooperation (SjCOOP) Project. The Bell Fellow in Population and Development Studies Harvard (‘95/’96) has been involved in science journalism training and mentoring for over two decades.

Ehsan Masood is a senior editor at Nature. He taught science policy at Imperial College London for a decade and has made documentaries for the BBC and written several books including GDP: The World’s Most Powerful Formula and Why it Must Now Change and Science and Islam: A History. He was a KSJ Fellow in 2017/18.

Thiago Medaglia: Thiago Medaglia is a Brazilian science journalist, a writer, and the founder of Ambiental Media (https://ambiental.media/en), a news startup that transforms science into compelling and accessible journalism. A former editor of National Geographic Brazil magazine, he was a fellow in the Knight Science Journalism Program at MIT in 2020, and holds a master’s degree in History of Science from Harvard.

Rensberger directed the Knight Fellowships from 1998 to 2008. Since 1966 he has been a science journalist, mainly with The New York Times and The Washington Post; head writer of “3-2-1 Contact!,” a science show for kids; a freelance writer; and senior editor of “Science 80,” a monthly magazine.