The Knight Science Journalism program at MIT, an internationally renowned mid-career fellowship program, is proud to announce that ten elite science journalists from four countries will make up its Class of 2018-19. Each year the KSJ program, which celebrates its 35th anniversary this year, brings journalists to Cambridge for a ten-month fellowship that allows […]
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.”
This Year’s Fellows: Ehsan Masood
During his nine-month fellowship, Masood intends to track down every living Harvard and MIT scientist persecuted under McCarthyism; many have never publicly told their stories.
This Year’s Fellows: Kolawole Talabi
In northern Nigeria, thousands have died in conflicts between farmers and livestock herders, “and it’s a crisis I felt I needed to do something about.”
This Year’s Fellows: Jane Qiu
She didn’t start out as a journalist. She has a doctorate in cancer genetics. So how did she come to write about grasslands in Tibet? It had to do with a newspaper and a former inmate.