Three editors join 10 fellows (including some aspiring authors) for a lively two-hour conversation, ranging from what makes a best-seller to the most memorable book proposals to the future of the e-book publishing industry.
Power On! Help for Puerto Rico, With a Hand From KSJ
To help hurricane-ravaged Puerto Rico regain safe drinking water and electricity, the MIT D-Lab recently volunteered in a project to build solar-paneled trailers with purification and charging systems. One of the volunteers was Teresa Carr, a 2017-18 Knight Science Journalism fellow.
Alumni Notes: February 8, 2018
Yves Sciama on a reporting trip to Senegal. “A bunch of new things are happening to me,” writes Yves Sciama (2013-14) from just outside Grenoble, France, adding (with a wink emoji), “Some of them may actually have some influence on our beloved profession — which tends to be very nationally insular.” On Jan. 29, Yves […]
The Envelope, Please: Teresa Carr Is an Ellie Finalist
The 2017-18 fellow, an award-winning investigative reporter for Consumer Reports, is up for a National Magazine Award for her article “Too Many Meds? America’s Love Affair With Prescription Medication.”
This Year’s Fellows: Joshua Hatch
A data journalist’s job is to convert raw numbers and facts into stories told through graphs, charts, pictures, and diagrams. Equal parts science, art, and journalism, the process can seem obscure to anyone who has never done it. But Hatch says it is simply the application of basic journalism skills to numerical data.
What Semester Break? Four Fellows Give a Journalism Course
“The IAP sessions seemed like a great opportunity to give back to the MIT community. which has welcomed us here so openheartedly, and I was glad to see so many people sign up and attend.”