I was a fellow at WIRED magazine this past summer, so for any of you applying now, here's what I remember from my own application process. 1. A lot of the final selections are down to fate. Last year, I worked on 2 fellowship applications. I really wanted one of them. I spent 5 months… Continue reading My best tips for your AAAS Mass Media Fellowship application
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People and their word
During our wrap-up in Washington DC, we had several interesting panels. One of them was about science videos. I asked two of them afterwards (a person from NPR and a person from PBS) if I could send them some of my science animations to get their feedback. There was a third person there, a lady… Continue reading People and their word
How the WIRED summer went
After our fellowship was done, we were all flown back to D.C., and we had a "poster fair". All of us fellows who had been placed at newsrooms pasted and arranged our articles on posters, and then we had some very nice and supportive guests tell us what a good job we had all done.… Continue reading How the WIRED summer went
Ninth piece for WIRED
This was an article about an Arabic science show I'd had my heart set on writing, but when I talked to my editor about it, she seemed a little skeptical. But somehow during my last week, I did the research to convince her otherwise, connected with whom I needed to connect, interviewed who I need… Continue reading Ninth piece for WIRED
Eighth piece for WIRED
I wrote about a meteor camera network that NASA uses to track fireballs through the heavens. Those cameras will see lots of meteors on the night of the Perseid showers. It was a quick story, and what I liked was I got to interview people from North Carolina. I was looking at the map of… Continue reading Eighth piece for WIRED
Places to visit in Berkeley
1. Climb the hill to the Lawrence Hall of Science. This hill is shrouded in forest, and lanes criss-cross them here and there, lined with fancy houses. It's to the east of Berkeley. One Sunday afternoon, I followed the labyrinth of streets all the way to the top. It is pretty steep, but not too… Continue reading Places to visit in Berkeley
My favorite article for WIRED
My favorite article I wrote was about a group of American Indians called Karuk who live in North California. I liked this piece so much because it was like interviewing hero after hero. Not flashy heroes, just really good, dependable, wonderful heroes. Everyone had done so much reaching across aisles, and doing what was needed… Continue reading My favorite article for WIRED
Fifth article for WIRED
I published 3 articles within 8 days! But there are two extra weeks you should count at the beginning when I was working on them and didn't publish anything. One was about air pollution in a mostly Black neighborhood in Maryland. Oh yeah, I mentioned that here before. It's the one I did the GIS… Continue reading Fifth article for WIRED
Making maps
I had to verify a fact for my article I'm working on now. It's about a bunch of polluting power plants being built in a neighborhood in Maryland where mostly Black people live. Having lived in Maryland, I can tell you that this is exactly the sort of thing that Maryland would do. What the… Continue reading Making maps
Third article for WIRED
This article was going to be a triumph for me, for many different reasons. First, because it was about Sweden, pretty much. Second, because all the instagram/twitter/blog/facebook stalking I've done over the years came into handy. No one can say all of that was a waste of time any more. I went from a random… Continue reading Third article for WIRED
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