The idea of a Holy Grail might seem like a fantasy. But for Matt Kaplan, science journalist and former Knight Fellow (2014-’15), it also served as inspiration for scientific inquiry and for his latest book.
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 […]
Looking Back at ScienceWriters2015, Via Twitter
Thanks to Twitter, my iPhone, and the unstoppable sharing habits of our attendees, we had a window into everything going on across the recent conference in Cambridge.
Science Writers Consider Alternative Narratives
A panel at the National Association of Science Writers 2015 conference in Cambridge discussed alternative narrative approaches.
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 […]