Science Journalism in the Public Interest617.452.3513knight-info@mit.eduToggle navigationAbout KSJ@MIT HistoryFaculty & StaffCurrent FellowsContactFellowships 9-month FellowshipProject FellowshipsStory GrantsEligibility & Applying 9 Month ProgramApplySeminars & WorkshopsResources The Open NotebookThe TrackerBeing a Science JournalistData Journalism ToolsMultimedia JournalismMagazineCalling All Science Journalists!The application period for the 2016-17 Knight Science Journalism Fellowship program will open on January 1. Science journalists from around the world are encouraged to apply. 
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High Stakes at Climate Talks, And KSJ Fellows Are On It
The importance of the COP21 climate talks in Paris have drawn some of the best science and environmental journalists in the world to the potentially historic summit, including several former KSJ fellows. 
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Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age
Sherry Turkle, author and MIT professor, believes our cell phones, devices designed to help us communicate, are in some ways doing just the opposite. 
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From New York City’s Outer Limits to the Red Rocks of Mars
In his latest film, documentary filmmaker Ian Cheney takes viewers on an imagined journey to Mars, that they might better understand life on Earth. 
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Science of the Magical with Matt Kaplan ’15
The idea of a Holy Grail might seem like a fantasy. But for Matt Kaplan, science journalist and former Knight Fellow (2014-’15), it also served as inspiration for scientific inquiry and for his latest book.
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Looking Back at ScienceWriters2015, Via Twitter
Thanks to Twitter, my iPhone, and the unstoppable sharing habits of our attendees, we had a window into everything going on across the recent conference in Cambridge. 
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Established in 1983, the Knight Science Journalism Program at MIT — colloquially known as KSJ@MIT — seeks to nurture and enhance the skills of a select breed of journalist: Those who toil at the complex and often fractious intersection of science and public life. The centerpiece of this effort is our 9-month fellowship program, which brings together a small group of elite journalists from across the globe for two semesters of study, intellectual growth and exploration at MIT, Harvard, and other institutions in Cambridge and greater Boston. The program is now considered to be among the most distinguished journalism fellowships in the world, and KSJ@MIT has evolved to include a variety of grants, publications, and other resources aimed at fostering vigorous, accurate and independent coverage of the sciences.
Alumni Fellow Profiles
Esther Nakkazi ’08
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