Entries from The Boston Globe, Detroit Free Press, The Arizona Republic, and Boston’s WBUR also earned recognition.
KSJ Launches Online Science Editing Handbook, Fact-Checking Project
The projects are part of a redesigned website that also features resources in areas ranging from data journalism to Covid-19 reporting.
The Chirp Heard ‘Round the World: LIGO’s Lisa Barsotti Reflects on a Landmark Discovery
The observation of gravitational waves earned the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics, and it marked a triumph for scientists at the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory, or LIGO. Among them was Lisa Barsotti, a physicist who has dedicated her career to the search for and study of gravitational waves.
Author Lydia Denworth Makes a Scientific Case for Friendship
Denworth’s hour-long talk took the audience on a journey through the history of the scientific study of friendship, how we’ve come to appreciate its evolutionary and biological importance over time, and how to nurture these valuable relationships in our own lives.
Three KSJ Alumni Share the Story Behind a Viral Moon Landing Deepfake
Former fellows Pakinam Amer, Magnus Bjerg, and Jeff DelViscio were part of a team that used artificial intelligence to conjure a tragic alternate history of the Apollo 11 moon mission.
Meet This Year’s Fellows: Sonali Prasad
Sonali Prasad understands well how seismic forces can shape social and physical landscapes. Now she wants to tell these stories through art and performance.