Back to work
When I decided to quit The Hindu and leave for grad studies at New York University, my parents, relatives, their friends, my father's boss at work, his family and their friends all said that I'…
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Science journalism as an institutional undertaking
"The paper has been through many financial crises and Science Times has not been affected." These were the words of David Corcoran, Editor, NYT Science Times, who'd dropped by my NYU SHE…
New York winters
No patterns that I can see. O New York, how cold will you be this winter? Because I come from Chennai and 22 deg. C is cold enough. Full data here.…
The trouble 'measuring' geomagnetic events
The Richter scale describes the strength of earthquakes, and enough quakes have occurred across the spectrum of strengths for it to be well calibrated. On the Kp index scale, however, more occurrences of stronger and weaker flares are necessary for us to really know where each one sits on the scale.…
NYUlab: Beat-sculpting, money-making and science journalism
(This blog post belongs to a series, presumptuously titled NYUlab, about interesting thoughts and experiences I have as I pursue an MA in science, health and environmental reporting at New York Univer…
Beat-sculpting, money-making and science journalism
Today, my class had two guests. Malcolm Ritter, whose Twitter profile reads "Associated Press science reporter", is not just any science reporter. He's been covering science for AP for o…
Being a science journalist with dignity
Classes at NYU have started! On day one, Michael Balter, who is a senior correspondent for Science, kicked off the program with an introduction to interviewing by, simply enough, interviewing each one…
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I'm here now.…
Counting warheads
Two researchers associated with the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists have published their research on the number of nuclear warheads possessed by countries worldwide, together with data on where they…
Who is a science writer?
August 28 was Orientation Day at the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute, New York University, where I've enrolled with the Science, Health & Environmental Reporting Program (SHERP) for the…
And now, a tweet from our sponsor
This is a guest post contributed by Anuj Srivas, tech. journalist and blogger, until recently the author of Hypertext, The Hindu. “Once every hundred years, media changes,” social media king Mark Zuc…
Wendy Doniger & fungi
The best stories are those that help us give new meanings to old objects, accustomed ideas and known tales. This notion applies both to articles in a newspaper and a work of fantasy fiction. It's…