The Knight Science Journalism Fellowship has selected twelve journalists from seven countries for its 27th class of Fellows. The journalists will study science, health, environment and technology at MIT during the academic year 2009–10.
The new Fellows are:
Michael Barnes, A TV documentary producer from England who has worked on the American science series NOVA.
Marcin Jamkowski, a writer and photographer from Poland who has worked extensively for National Geographic.
Konstantin Kakaes, a writer for The Economist who has been based in Mexico City during the past four years.
Chris Mooney, a blogger and author who has worked for Seed magazine.
Susan Moran, a freelance writer on environmental issues from Boulder, Colorado.
Onche Odeh, senior science and agriculture reporter at the Daily Independent newspaper in Lagos, Nigeria.
Mary Otto, a former Washington Post reporter and now editor of Street Sense newspaper in Washington, D.C.
Rowan Philp, senior correspondent at the Sunday Times in Johannesberg, South Africa.
Eugenie Samuel Reich, a British freelance writer who has worked extensively for New Scientist magazine.
Craig Simons, an American reporter who was Beijing bureau chief for the Cox newspapers.
Daniela Hirschfeld, the editor of the magazine Galería in Montevideo, Uruguay and a regular contributor to the online news service Scidev.net.
Xiaojian Zhao, a health reporter for the newspaper Southern Weekly Beijing bureau, China.
The new Knights were chosen by a committee comprised of Philip Hilts, Knight Fellowships director; John Durant, MIT professor and director of the MIT Museum; Carey Goldberg, freelance health and science writer; Ivan Semeniuk, Science Journalist in Residence
at the Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics at University of Toronto; and Charles Petit of Knight Science Journalism Tracker.
