March 25, 2019 On October 12, 2014, Scott Huler (’15) stepped into a canoe in Charleston, South Carolina. Nine months later, he stepped out of one in the small North Carolina town of Bath, near where the Pamlico River empties into the Atlantic. In between, he had hiked and paddled hundreds of miles of Carolina […]
This Year’s Fellows: Talia Bronshtein
As a Knight Science Journalism fellow at MIT, Bronshtein is studying the emerging yet underreported subject of decentralized technologies, which she thinks may one day revolutionize everything from medical records and financial systems to journalism.
Gulf Stream Series Wins Knight Science Journalism’s Victor K. McElheny Award
Reporters from the Charleston Post and Courier, the Seattle Times, and the Tampa Bay Times are among the honorees of the inaugural Victor K. McElheny Award for local and regional science journalism, presented by MIT’s Knight Science Journalism Program.
Benjamin Decker Talks Journalism in the Age of Disinformation
Benjamin Decker wants to understand disinformation—where it originates, how it spreads, and how it can be corralled. He and his colleagues spent the 2018 election cycle finding and cataloging false and misleading internet content. He talked with KSJ fellows about what he learned.
Alumni Notes: February 25, 2019
For Betsy Mason (’16), the past five years have basically been one long deep dive into the world of maps. And now she has a gorgeous new book to show for it. Last fall, Mason and her writing partner Greg Miller published All Over the Map: A Cartographic Odyssey, a beautifully illustrated, large-format book about […]
This Year’s Fellows: Jeff DelViscio
Jeff DelViscio has big dreams for science communication. As a one-time climate researcher, now veteran science journalist and multimedia producer, he feels it is a critical time to find innovative ways to show how the world is changing — and to prepare people to adapt. That’s why he recently took leave from his role as director of multimedia at STAT to become a Knight Science Journalism fellow at MIT.