We’re excited to roll out the new Knight Science Journalism website this week, not only because it’s a brighter, smarter look, but because it’s a signal of other coming changes at the program. Among these: resource pages for science writers, a forthcoming digital magazine, and a refurbished blog.
Tell Your Story On Stage at the ScienceWriters2015 Edition of The Story Collider
The Story Collider is coming to ScienceWriters2015, and they want you as their next storyteller.
The Story Collider is a national show featuring true stories about science. They’ve recruited researchers and journalists around the world to appear live on stage, where they share their first-person experiences in science, medicine, and related areas—whether those experiences are poetic, tragic, funny, inspiring, or all of the above. Their podcast has over one million downloads.
We’re thrilled to announce that …
Guardians of the Flame: Parting Thoughts on Science, Journalism, and Progress
The economic challenges facing the news industry are real, and they are particularly acute for specialists, including journalists who cover science, technology, health, and the environment.
Introducing the 2016 Knight Science Journalism Fellows
In an announcement published this morning by MIT News, the Knight Science Journalism program released the names of the 10 journalists selected for its 33rd class of fellows.
KSJ Collaborates with The Open Notebook to Provide Tips and Tools for Science Journalists
You can say that you care about accurate, compelling science storytelling, and that you’re concerned about science journalism’s future as a profession. You can talk about the best ways for journalists to get scientists to open up about their work, or about the need in newsrooms to master interactive tools and big data and capitalize on social media. But who’s out there on the Web actually writing about these things, week in and week out?
The Open Notebook, that’s who.
Since 2010, the non-profit website has been providing educational tools and resources to sharpen the professional skills of science journalists at all experience levels. It’s home to detailed interviews with science journalists who dissect their own story-creation process, deep reported features on the challenges of the craft, “day in the life” features where science journalists share their habits and tricks, and even an advice column and a pitch database giving examples of successful feature queries.
It’s a fantastic resource for science journalists, whether they’re veterans or greenhorns. Yet it’s all a labor of love on the part of co-founders Siri Carpenter and Jeanne Erdmann—who act as the …
Meet the Brainy Scientists Speaking at KSJ’s June 11-12 Workshop on Frontiers in Brain Science
If you’re a science or health journalist and you’re interested in what researchers are learning about the brain, there’s only one place to spend June 11 and 12, 2015: right here in Cambridge, at the offices of the Knight Science Journalism program.
That’s where you’ll meet eight top Boston-area neuroscience and cognitive science researchers as part of Frontiers in Brain Science: The Kavli Science Journalism Workshop.
And if you move fast, there’s still time to apply for a $750 travel stipend to attend; the deadline is April 10. The travel funding comes courtesy of our valued partner, the Kavli Foundation.
We shared a preview of the workshop on March 1. Today I’m excited to tell you about the terrific researchers we’re bringing in to share the latest news about their work. They’ll help the assembled journalists explore (and sometimes explode) modern notions about the ingredients of consciousness and intelligence.
Lisa Feldman Barrett is a University Distinguished Professor in the Department of Psychology at Northeastern University; a research scientist at the Martinos Center for …