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<div><font color="#000000"><b>New Knight Fellows
Selected</b></font></div>
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<div><font color="#000000">Twelve journalists from the United States,
Brazil, Germany, Japan, Kenya and China have been selected to spend
the 2006-07 academic year on campus as the 24th class of Knight
Science Journalism Fellows.<br>
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Here is the new group of journalists:<br>
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<b>Clark Boyd</b> is the technology correspondent for The World, a
radio show co-produced by the BBC and WGBH in Boston. His four-part
series on global stem cell research won an Alfred I. duPont-Columbia
University Award for Broadcast Journalism in 2006. Boyd has been
hosting and producing "The World's Technology Podcast" since
early 2005.<br>
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<b>Herton Escobar</b> is a science and environment reporter for<i> O
Estado de S. Paolo</i> newspaper in Brazil. His recent work has
covered embryonic stem cells, genomic sequencing and environmental
conservation in the Amazon.<br>
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<b>Richard Friebe</b> is writer and editor for the<i> Frankfurter
Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung</i> in Germany. He is also a science
photographer whose work has appeared in the<i> Financial Times</i> and
the German edition of<i> Technology Review</i>.<br>
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<b>Lila Guterman</b> is a senior reporter for<i> The Chronicle of
Higher Education.</i> One of her recent stories brought national
attention to a nearly-ignored study that estimated the number of Iraqi
deaths since the American military invasion.<br>
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<b>Elizabeth Howton</b> is the science and health editor of the<i> San
Jose Mercury News.</i> Her team has reported on conflict of interest
in drug research, human errors in hospital deaths and the ethical
questions of genetic testing.<br>
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<b>Jeanne Lenzer</b> was a physician assistant for years before she
became a freelance medical writer. Her work, which focuses on the
control of information and decision making in medicine, has appeared
in the<i> British Medical Journal, Slate</i> and<i> Consumer Reports
on Health.<br>
<br>
</i><b>Wycliffe Muga</b> writes about environmental conservation for
the<i> Daily Nation</i> newspaper in Kenya. Currently a leading
political analyst and opinion writer, he plans to reorient his career
towards becoming a science journalist.<br>
<br>
<b>Stephanie Nano</b> is the national desk supervisor and a reporter
for the Associated Press. In the mid-90s, while on a Knight
International Press Fellowship, she trained young journalists in
Prague. She has also taught journalists in Bosnia, Croatia and
Mongolia.<br>
<br>
<b>Sora Song</b> is a science reporter for<i> Time</i> magazine. Her
recent work includes stories about sleep deprivation, pro-anorexia web
sites and the soaring rate of caesarean sections.<br>
<br>
<b>Tetsuro Yamada</b> is a science writer for<i> The Yomiuri
Shimbun</i> in Japan, the newspaper with the world's highest
circulation of over 10 million copies daily. Recently, he's written
about quantum computing, nanotechnology and science policy.<br>
<br>
<b>Yanning Luo</b> is a senior editor and reporter for<i> Sanlian Life
Weekly,</i> the largest news weekly in China. She has written features
on panda preserves, avian flu, fossil excavation and organ
transplants. She often contributes to the magazine's "Good News &
Bad News" science column.<br>
<br>
<b>Zheng Yu</b> is the desk editor for science and technology at
Xinhua News Agency, China's most influential news organization. He
also writes science columns for English-language publications, such
as<i> China Daily.</i> His book, "A Paradoxical American Superpower:
Bound to Fight Us?" will be published later this year.<br>
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Regards,<br>
Martha</font></div>
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