A follow-up to: My best tips for your AAAS Mass Media Fellowship application. If you got it, congratulations! If you didn't, you know what? Screw everything. Life sucks. I've definitely been in the same boat with other fellowships. But any case! Here's my top ten list of things you should know as you prepare for… Continue reading So you got a AAAS fellowship. What’s next?
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My best tips for your AAAS Mass Media Fellowship application
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
Feeling special
One of my articles from WIRED was chosen for recognition!! I feel so special. It was my favorite article, too, so it looks like me and the people running this "Highly Subjective Round-up of Outstanding Science News" have the same taste. I can't believe I got nominated and picked and everything. Wow!! Here's the website… Continue reading Feeling special
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
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
Interviewing Arabs
It's my last few days here, and I'm interviewing Arabs. I'd had the idea for a while - to write a story about a science and technology show that airs on the BBC Arabic. It's called 4 Tech, and I've watched it a whole bunch, and I think I probably blogged about it some, back… Continue reading Interviewing Arabs
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
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