Having covered beats ranging from bioethics to chemistry, the Knight Science Journalism Project Fellow now turns an eye toward the use — and misuse — of race in medicine.
How Amy Maxmen’s Ebola Reporting Prepared Her To Cover a Pandemic
The Nature reporter discusses the U.S. coronavirus response, podcasting, and how she manages to stay positive while covering a somber beat.
Meet This Year’s Fellows: Anil Ananthaswamy
Whether he’s standing on a frozen lake in Siberia or pondering the implications of the famous double-slit experiment, Anil Ananthaswamy takes concepts to the edge of the map, where scientific understanding and philosophy meet.
Meet This Year’s Fellows: Bethany Brookshire
An accomplished science writer and podcast host, Bethany Brookshire is spending the 2019-2020 academic year at MIT as a Knight Science Journalism Fellow, studying human-animal interactions at the urban and suburban interface. And it all began a decade ago, as she tells it, with a surreptitious lunchtime excursion.
Meet This Year’s Fellows: Eva Wolfangel
The award-winning technology reporter has heard the word “no” a lot in her journalism career. The more times she hears it, the more she digs in.
Meet This Year’s Fellows: Tony Leys
Leys’ reporting at The Des Moines Register has covered a vast range of topics, from in-depth health reports vital to everyday Iowans, to presidential campaign stories that grab national attention. But for most of his reporting career, his primary focus has been mental health.