"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 […]
"ANNALEE NEWITZ, ’03
By the early 2000s, Annalee Newitz says she was at a “crossroads” in her career. Her syndicated tech-culture column Techsploitation was an early success, but her longing to branch out led her to the Knight Science Journalism Program at MIT. KSJ “was an incredible help,” said Newitz. “I was able to re-educate myself with a lot of biology and […]
"JOHN MUCHANGI, ’13
John Muchangi began his journalism career in 2005 at The People Daily newspaper in Kenya — first as a science features writer, and later as the publication’s science editor. In 2007 he moved to The Star, a startup newspaper based in the capital city Nairobi, where he currently serves as science editor. John was awarded […]
"JASON PALMER, ’14
Jason Palmer says he became interested in science journalism after years as an ultrafast laser scientist at Lawrence Livermore Lab in the U.S. and Imperial College in Britain — a time that instilled in him, as he describes it, a “fear of dark laboratories.” As an antidote, he began freelance writing while doing postdoctoral work […]