"This fellowship experience was perhaps most valuable to me because
it gave me a renewed love of science, adding inspiration to both my
own research as well as my interest in communicating science to others.
I was able to take my own experiences as a neuroscience graduate student
and share them with the magazine's staff members and other Fellows.
I didn't realize fully how much I, as a researcher, could contribute
to non-scientists' understanding of the scientific process until
I began discussing my work with others and putting my skills as a researcher
into journalism."
Nicole Garbarini – Scientific American (2004)
"One of my favorite activities was attending the daily news meetings
at NPR where the various departments meet to coordinate news coverage.
It was fascinating to see how they decided what to broadcast. In deciding
what listeners would and would not hear, the NPR team was determining
what the news really was – a tremendous responsibility."
Julie Rosenthal – NPR (2004)
"While (fact checking an article) I uncovered information that
challenged the credibility of sources on which the article was based.
…The features editor made a call to scrap the original story. She
suggested that I write it and gave me three days and 360 words to do
it in. This, my most important experience at Popular Science, was at
once a valuable lesson in journalistic ethics and integrity."
Tahalia Barrett, Popular Science (2003)
"The most important skill I gained (during the fellowship) was
learning how to write technical stories for a broad readership. By the
end of the summer, I felt like my stories talked more with readers than
to readers. And I hope these readers were able to learn as much from
my articles as I learned from the entire process."
David Grimm, US News & World Report (2003)
"The most important thing that I did during my summer at the St.
Louis Post-Dispatch (was) to discover for myself why science reporting
is important. Before I started my fellowship, I obviously thought science
writing was important, but mostly because that's what I wanted
to read. Once I was at the Post, I realized that science isn't
in the newspaper for scientists… Science is in the newspaper because
the public needs to know about it."
Angela Vierling, St. Louis Post-Dispatch (2003)
