Robert Frederick, a 2021 Nieman Fellow, has been a science journalist for two decades, including stints on staff with St. Louis Public Radio, Science, and American Scientist. He also teaches science journalism for Harvard’s Division of Continuing Education.
On the very first day of my “Reporting on Climate Change” class at the Harvard Extension School last August, a student asked if I had any strategies for responding to editors who say there’s not enough room for in-depth climate … Read more
Robert Boyle made every effort to repeat his experiment successfully. It meant killing yet another bird. But to convince his colleagues that animals need air to live, Boyle had to show them. “Take no one’s word for it” — … Read more
