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TheKnight Science Journalism program[1] (styled as "KSJ@MIT") offers 9-month research fellowships, based at its headquarters at theMIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences, to elite staff and freelance journalists specializing in coverage of science and technology, medicine, or the environment. Fellows are chosen from an international application pool in a competitive process each spring, and reside inCambridge, Massachusetts, for two semesters of audited coursework and research at MIT,Harvard, and surrounding institutions.
The program is directed byDeborah Blum.[2]
KSJ@MIT has hosted more than 300 fellows from a wide range of national and international publications, includingThe New York Times,The Wall Street Journal,Forbes,Time,Scientific American,Science, theAssociated Press,ABC News, andCNN.[3]
Eligible applicants can work for print, broadcast or the web as reporters, writers, editors, or producers.[4]
In 2016, the program launched an editorially independent digital science magazine calledUndark.[5]
KSJ@MIT was launched in 1983 byVictor McElheny.[3] It is administratively a part of the Program in Science, Technology, and Society (STS) located in the MIT School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences.[6] The program and its activities is primarily funded by an endowment from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. Additional funding has been provided by theAlfred P. Sloan Foundation, theMellon Foundation, and theKavli Foundation.[3]
The nine-month program is designed to offer selected fellows a year away from deadlines to pursue intellectual enrichment, develop new sources, and explore aspects of science and its interaction with economic, political, and cultural forces that would ordinarily be out of reach for a working science journalist. Fellows typically audit courses on a non-graded, non-credit basis atMIT,Harvard University, and other nearby institutions includingBoston University,Tufts University,Northeastern University, andBrandeis University.[7]
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