Annalee Newitz on Psychological Warfare and the American Mind - the former KSJ fellow discusses their timely new book "Stories are Weapons." ksj.mit.edu/news/2024/06/2…

For over 6 years, Ferris Jabr (KSJ '22) has been researching this book. It's no wonder that Becoming Earth has been met with such enthusiasm!

Selecting the 2024-2025 #SharonBegley fellow, with KSJ at MIT, was tough -- we had so many talented candidates! But we couldn't be happier that it's anil oza who'll follow in the footsteps of Isa Cueto Ambar Castillo Brittany Trang and Deborah J. Balthazar. statnews.com/announcing-202…

We're delighted to share that the multitalented anil oza is STAT's fifth Sharon Begley Science Reporting Fellow As part of the year-long fellowship, he will also be part of the cohort of KSJ at MIT fellows. Thanks to Chan Zuckerberg Initiative CZI Science for sponsoring. statnews.com/announcing-202…

so so excited to rejoin the team STAT, and learn lots from everyone KSJ at MIT!! I loved my time working on Color Code, and thrilled to do even more reporting on health equity & everything science & medicine !

Can’t wait to host this talented science journalist at KSJ at MIT

I had no idea until I read this that one person's DNA accounts for 70 percent of the genetic map we use today. And that he was never told: Haunting the Human Genome Project. undark.org/2024/07/09/inf… via Undark Magazine

My final story as a Begley Fellow at STAT: I profile the Thoracic Organ Ex Vivo Perfusion Lab at MGH. Come for the "heart in a box" and stay for the potential of no longer needing an organ transplant waitlist. statnews.com/2024/07/22/mas…

Had a blast at our KSJ at MIT workshop with the amazing SciComm Excellence awardees! Thank you Schmidt Sciences for sponsoring us, Deborah Blum for hosting, and Jacqui Banaszynski for your wisdom...

“It is quite remarkable that modest ecological change for humans—being able to travel two to three times faster at sea—might have played a decisive role in the further spread of such important human pathogens,” says Sébastien Calvignac-Spencer. science.org/content/articl…

Our 2025 class of fellows is MIT News official! 🗞️🦫 news.mit.edu/2024/knight-sc…

Congratulations to INN members MuckRock and Cicero Independiente for winning this year’s KSJ at MIT Victor K. McElheny Award! The winning collaboration, “The Air We Breathe,” investigated the air quality of Cicero, Illinois. Read the investigation here: muckrock.com/news/archives/…

Not all Indonesian science is bad. I wrote a profile of Henry Surendra, a prolific young epidemiologist currently on the look out for pandemic bugs! I visited him at work and we talked much about health inequity in 🇮🇩 and how local science could help! gavi.org/vaccineswork/m…

In this behind-the-scenes interview, Jessica Hamzelou tells Emma Gometz what went into reporting her MIT Technology Review story about a group of doctors and their quest to root out dangerous practice and nail down the science underpinning promising treatments. theopennotebook.com/2024/07/30/jes…

My dear friend and KSJ at MIT colleague Sonali Prasad's beautiful looking novel just came! Can't wait to read it. Congratulations Sonali!

Student journalists are doing amazing work and that includes covering science. As advisor to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) student newspaper, The Tech, I am so delighted to see EurekAlert! offer new access to students. Quoted here saying exactly that! blog.eurekalert.org/2024/08/05/exp…

Fourteen years ago, I wondered why my students at NYU Journalism couldn't have access to embargoed EurekAlert! press releases. Others have also wondered that. Today, they changed their policy. embargowatch.wordpress.com/2010/03/22/so-… via Deborah Blum

Congratulations to Sonali Prasad, KSJ '20! 📖

Student reporters are now eligible for EurekAlert! membership! "It's one of the best ways I know for them to learn about the wide range of research ideas available to journalists" said Deborah Blum, advisor to Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) newspaper The Tech blog.eurekalert.org/2024/08/05/exp…

Recent opinion piece from Caty Enders mentions her time at KSJ in 2018. The knowledge and experience our fellows gain in Cambridge impacts their work long after they leave Kendall Square.