Flint Offers a New Model for Accountability
A couple of weeks ago, the task force Michigan governor Rick Snyder appointed to investigate Flint’s now infamous water crisis...
How to Turn Science into Great Investigative Journalism
Many science writers are curious about investigative journalism, but unsure how to proceed. At the recent Professional Development Day of...
South Bronx Mom Who Collects Data on Policing is Invited to the White House
Earlier this fall, I was invited to attend an extraordinary meeting at the White House. “Open Science and Innovation: Of...
Combating Seafood Fraud Requires Interdisciplinary Approaches
One of the things we do at the Investigative Reporting Workshop is explore how different academic disciplines can enrich...
What Pluto Tells Us About Journalism (featured at investigativereportingworkshop.org
When NASA's New Horizons spacecraft sent back its first crisp images of Pluto last week, the culmination of a 3-billion...
The Art and Science of Failure (featured on Longreads.com)
Failure is interesting. It comes in endless variations: professional, personal, comical, stupid, lazy, unexpected – to name just a few....
Science, Meet Journalism. You Two Should Talk
When I began my term as a public policy scholar at the Wilson Center last year working on the project...
Science and the Media and Smithsonian Environmental Research Center Co-Host Program on Marine Invaders
With Scientists, Chefs, and Canoes, Journalists Explore Marine Invaders
Over 30 journalists and journalism school faculty paddled in canoes, learned new audience engagement strategies, chatted with chefs and seafood distributors and tasted gourmet cooking as part of a novel pilot program to give journalists in all fields enjoyable and productive access to the sciences while learning new journalism skills.
Data Journalism Helps Make Sense of a World Awash in Information
Washington, D.C. July 30 --The explosion of data-sharing has created new opportunities for journalists to harness this information and create...
What is Data Journalism, How is it Changing Newsrooms, and What’s This Got to do with Science?
What is data journalism? Why does it matter? How has the maturing field of data science changed the direction of...
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