JOURNALIST IN RESIDENCE
Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics (KITP) and the
Kavli Foundation jointly sponsor the KITP Journalist in Residence program. The KITP solicits applications from journalists and science writers to spend up to 5 months at KITP as Journalist Fellow. The purpose of the program is to promote excellence in scientific journalism by bringing journalists, science writers and science editors in contact with physicists working at the frontiers of science, and through interaction, educating physicists on how to communicate their science to the general public.
Journalist Fellows are distinguished by a keen sense of what resounds in the public arena, and by an interest both in developing that sense within the physics community, and in working with physicists on the communication of physics. Fellows interact with researchers, both formally and informally, in attempts to discover effective and interesting avenues of communication - and to learn about physics.
Early Fellows included Rosalind Reid, Editor of American Scientist, Barbara Goss Levi, Senior Editor, writer and now Contributing Editor for Physics Today. Recently, Tom Siegfried, Science Editor of the Dallas Morning News from 1985-2004, was KITP Journalist Fellow, followed by writer and producer Chris Carter, who brings a creative focus to communicating science. George Johnson, who writes about science for The New York Times, Scientific American and other publications was Journalist Fellow at KITP during October and November 2006.
Current Journalist in Residence
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