If you’re looking for an article from the MIT Knight Science Journalism Program’s Tracker blog, well, you’ve come to the right place. The full archive — including all comments and most […]
A farewell post: Three reasons why good science writing is worth defending.
After five-and-a-half years as a media critic at the Tracker, I’m more convinced than ever that science writing is thriving. I said that recently to Bethany Brookshire of Science News, […]
Globe story on non-invasive prenatal testing offers murky argument.
An ominous headline in The Boston Globe on Dec. 14 promised a good, tough investigative story: “Oversold prenatal tests spur some to choose abortions,” it read. That seemed to be a […]
(UPDATED/2*) What Ho? A 2014 List of Lists of best, worst, or otherwisest in 2014
Well, hello again. Charlie here and does time not fly? An unexpected email arrived the other day from Paul Raeburn, head and sole surviving blogger for the KSJ […]
Cancer & poverty: When a reporter’s journey becomes part of the story.
“I thought I understood poor. I grew up poor in Athens, the daughter of a single mother of five,” Virginia Lynne Anderson wrote recently in a story in The Atlanta […]
Malcolm Gladwell faces new charges of using others’ information without attribution.
This paragraph was plagiarized: In the mid-nineteenth century, workers began digging through Hoosac Mountain, a massive impediment nearly five miles thick, for a rail line to connect Boston to the […]