Knight Fellowship has made its mark on science journalism
Over the last three decades, 310 experienced science journalists from around the world have spent a full academic year at MIT as part of the Knight Science Journalism Fellowship. They’ve taken classes, gotten to know professors and students, spent time in labs and libraries, and experienced dozens of special seminars with leading researchers. An additional 300 have come to campus for weeklong “boot camps” on specific topics in science.In many cases, the experience changed the course of their careers, and their lives. “Everybody I worked with who did the fellowship came back energized,” says Nils Bruzelius, former science editor of the Boston Globe, and later of the Washington Post, who was a Knight Fellow in 1992-93. “They did deeper work, more informed work, and they did it with more enthusiasm.”While there are other fellowships for journalists, the Knight Fellowship program at MIT is the only such program aimed specifically at...