The Knight Science Journalism program at MIT offers full-year fellowships, and week-long workshops to journalists to increase their understanding of science, technology, engineering, medicine and environment. KSJ also tracks and comments daily on science and health stories around the world.
The evidence for its effectiveness is far less convincing than you might think.
Has lead been overlooked as the explanation for the drop in crime?
Tracker Charlie Petit sorts out 2012.
While political reporters chew on the political ebb and flow, it's up to science journalists to separate the myths from the facts regarding gun control, mass shootings, and mental illness.
But it is entering interstellar space.
The New York Times stumbles badly in discussing whether a jellyfish holds the key to human immortality.
Sometimes even the smartest space scientists screw things up. It's reassuring.
Election modeling is a lot like weather forecasting, but you can't tell that to certain veteran political observers.
The Weather Channel and its extreme weather freaks are not giving us what we need.
Newsweek will be 80 years old next year--or it would have been.
Diagnosing adverse child experiences could slash the suffering--and the costs--of obesity, alcoholism, addiction, and other serious and chronic ailments.
As the sages say, only time will tell.
An almost-forgotten pioneer of the American environmental movement is remembered in the obituaries.
Go to the Tracker to add your favorite cancer hype story in the comments!
And, happily, he avoids being sucked in.
For some people, climate change could prove exceedingly profitable.
Petition links Stanford study to everything that might be wrong with the food supply.
Winners and winning teams will each receive $20,000.
But is there evidence that exposure at Ground Zero caused cancer?
A dozen years later, things haven't worked out the way anyone would have hoped.
An Arizona science writer runs a marathon, writing 100 science stories in 100 days.
A New Yorker columnist takes an optimistic view--perhaps too optimistic--of Paul Ryan's potential as a conservationist.
Publisher says the distinguished blog network will survive the nearly complete replacement of the editorial staff.
Jay Rosen, New York University, Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute, with discussant, Ethan Zuckerman, director of the Center for Civic Media at MIT, and a principal research scientist at the Media Lab.
Panelists: Eli Kintisch, Alister Doyle, Hepeng Jia, Joyce Murdoch
There are no upcoming seminars at this time.
Meet the 2012 Knight Fellows
The 2012-13 fellowship year is well underway. Visit the Fellows page to get acquainted with the current class of Knight fellows.