In the Aftermath of the Holsey Execution: What Courts Say About Drunken...
We just simply put a mirror under the lawyer’s nose, and if it clouds up, that’s effective assistance of counsel. That’s what a lawyer told Ken Armstrong of The Marshall Project after the execution of...
View ArticleThe 13 boldest ideas in science: If you wear lipstick and pearls…
(Update 12/13: A Tracker reader notes that Alexandra Witze is a correspondent for Nature and a contributing writer for Science News, two publications that might, in part, be seen as competing with New...
View ArticleScientific American reshapes blog network, cuts number of blogs and bloggers...
Scientific American has rebuilt its blog network to “create an improved balance of topic areas and bring in some new voices,” the editors announced Dec. 15th. The move will cut the number of blogs and...
View ArticleRetraction Watch awarded a two-year, $400,000 grant from the MacArthur...
You might think of it as a website winning a genius grant: Retraction Watch, after more than four years and 2,000 posts, has been awarded a two-year, $400,000 grant from the MacArthur Foundation to...
View ArticleMalcolm Gladwell faces new charges of using others’ information without...
This paragraph was plagiarized: In the mid-nineteenth century, workers began digging through Hoosac Mountain, a massive impediment nearly five miles thick, for a rail line to connect Boston to the...
View ArticleCancer & poverty: When a reporter’s journey becomes part of the story.
“I thought I understood poor. I grew up poor in Athens, the daughter of a single mother of five,” Virginia Lynne Anderson wrote recently in a story in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. But while...
View Article(UPDATED/2*) What Ho? A 2014 List of Lists of best, worst, or otherwisest in...
Well, hello again. Charlie here and does time not fly? An unexpected email arrived the other day from Paul Raeburn, head and sole surviving blogger for the KSJ Tracker as the curtain closes on its...
View ArticleGlobe story on non-invasive prenatal testing offers murky argument.
An ominous headline in The Boston Globe on Dec. 14 promised a good, tough investigative story: “Oversold prenatal tests spur some to choose abortions,” it read. That seemed to be a story that would...
View ArticleA farewell post: Three reasons why good science writing is worth defending.
After five-and-a-half years as a media critic at the Tracker, I’m more convinced than ever that science writing is thriving. I said that recently to Bethany Brookshire of Science News, and she seemed...
View ArticleThe Tracker Now Lives Here …
If you’re looking for an article from the MIT Knight Science Journalism Program’s Tracker blog, well, you’ve come to the right place. The full archive — including all comments and most images — now...
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