[Sci-tech-public] New Knight Fellows selected

[Martha Henry]

New Knight Fellows Selected

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.

Here is the new group of journalists:

Clark Boyd 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.

Herton Escobar is a science and environment reporter for O Estado de 
S. Paolo newspaper in Brazil. His recent work has covered embryonic 
stem cells, genomic sequencing and environmental conservation in the 
Amazon.

Richard Friebe is writer and editor for the Frankfurter Allgemeine 
Sonntagszeitung in Germany. He is also a science photographer whose 
work has appeared in the Financial Times and the German edition of 
Technology Review.

Lila Guterman is a senior reporter for The Chronicle of Higher 
Education. 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.

Elizabeth Howton is the science and health editor of the San Jose 
Mercury News. Her team has reported on conflict of interest in drug 
research, human errors in hospital deaths and the ethical questions 
of genetic testing.

Jeanne Lenzer 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 
British Medical Journal, Slate and Consumer Reports on Health.

Wycliffe Muga writes about environmental conservation for the Daily 
Nation newspaper in Kenya. Currently a leading political analyst and 
opinion writer, he plans to reorient his career towards becoming a 
science journalist.

Stephanie Nano 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.

Sora Song is a science reporter for Time magazine. Her recent work 
includes stories about sleep deprivation, pro-anorexia web sites and 
the soaring rate of caesarean sections.

Tetsuro Yamada is a science writer for The Yomiuri Shimbun 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.

Yanning Luo is a senior editor and reporter for Sanlian Life Weekly, 
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.

Zheng Yu 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 China 
Daily. His book, "A Paradoxical American Superpower: Bound to Fight 
Us?" will be published later this year.

Regards,
Martha
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