Category Archives: Journalism

Credibility in the Age of Twitter: A Town Hall on the Marathon Bombing this Wednesday at the Nieman Foundation

By Seth Mnookin
Posted: April 30, 2013

Category: Journalism, Twitter | Tagged Andrew Kitzenberg, Boston Globe, Boston Marathon, Boston Police Department, Boston Red Sox, Callie Crossley, Cheryl Fiandaca, Commonwealth Avenue, CSAIL, Dana Forsythe, David Abel, David Beard, Harvard, Heartbreak Hill, Hong Qu, Jennifer Peter, Kenmore Square, Marathon Sports, MIT, New Yorker, Nieman Foundation, Palm Beach Post, Patriot's Day, Sean Collier, terrorism, Todd Mostak, Tsarnaev brothers, Washington Post, Watertown, WGBH, WickedLocal | 3 Comments

Finding time for fun: The Sabeti Lab goes Gangnam Style

By Seth Mnookin
Posted: January 11, 2013

Category: Journalism, science | Tagged Gangnam Style, MIT, Pardis Sabeti, Smithsonian | 1 Comment

“Electric Shock”: Inspiring new Matter story; reason for hope in the future

By Seth Mnookin
Posted: December 18, 2012

Category: e-reading, Journalism, science writing | Tagged Anil Ananthaswamy, Atavist, Bobbie Johnson, Byliner, Cynthia Graber, David Dobbs, Deborah Blum, Download the Universe, Graduate Program in Science Writing, Harper's, Jessica Benko, Jim Giles, Kathi Bahr, Kickstarter, Matt Power, Matter, Michael Levin, MIT, New Scientist, Oxford American, Roger Hodge, Tufts | 2 Comments

The state of science writing, circa 2012: The summer of our discontent, made glorious by the possibilities of our time

By Seth Mnookin
Posted: September 14, 2012

Category: Journalism, Media, science, science writing | Tagged ADHD, Ars Technica, autism, Bob Dylan, Brendan Maher, cancer, Cryptogenomicon, DNA, Ed Yong, Emily Willingham, ENCODE, Evolver Zone: Genomicron, Ewan Birney, Gizmodo, hookworms, JAMA, Jesus Diaz, John P.A. Ioannidis, John Timmer, Jonah Lehrer, Leonid Kruglyak, Mike White, Naomi Wolf, Nature, newspapers, PLOS ONE, Sean Eddy, T. Ryan Gregory, The Finch and the Pea, The Guardian, The New York Times, The New Yorker, Vagina, Wired | 7 Comments

Edward Jay Epstein “submits that Fareed Zakaria is not guilty of plagiarism.” I submit that Epstein doesn’t understand what the word means.

By Seth Mnookin
Posted: August 13, 2012

Category: Ethics, Journalism, Media | Tagged Adam Winkler, CNN, Edward Jay Epstein, Fareed Zakaria, Jill Lepore, plagiarism, The Daily Beast, The New Yorker, Time | 8 Comments

Jonah Lehrer’s missing compass

By Seth Mnookin
Posted: August 3, 2012

Category: Ethics, Journalism, SciWriteLabs | Tagged Bob Dylan, Jonah Lehrer, Leon Festinger, Michael Moynihan, plagiarism, Science Blogs, The New Yorker, When Prophecy Fails, Wired | 54 Comments

Did the BBC rip off the Guardian’s Higgs boson explainer?

By Seth Mnookin
Posted: July 5, 2012

Category: Ethics, Journalism | Tagged BBC, Ed Yong, Higgs boson, Ian Sample, Jonah Lehrer, plagiarism, The Guardian | 3 Comments

SciWriteLabs 8.3: Adjudicating the Lehrer plagiarism accusations. Plus: Are we ignoring the truly frightening trends in journalism?*

By Seth Mnookin
Posted: July 3, 2012

Category: Ethics, Journalism, Media, SciWriteLabs | Tagged Arianna Huffington, Carl Zimmer, Chicago Tribune, David Quammen, Deborah Blum, Jack Shafer, Jane Jacobs, Jim Romenesko, Jonah Lehrer, Journatic, Lou Dobbs, Malcolm Gladwell, Oprah Winfrey, plagiarism, Salon.com, The New York Times, The New Yorker, This American Life, William Goldman | 10 Comments

SciWriteLabs 8.2: Is it kosher to re-use wording from Facebook updates in your journalism? And: do we need a Son of Sam law for media miscreants?

By Seth Mnookin
Posted: June 29, 2012

Category: Ethics, Journalism, SciWriteLabs | Tagged blogging, Carl Zimmer, David Quammen, Deborah Blum, Facebook, Jack Shafer, Jayson Blair, Jim Romenesko, Jonah Lehrer, Malcolm Gladwell, Michael Finkel, Mike Barnicle, Paresh Jha, plagiarism, Salon.com, Son of Sam laws, The New Yorker | 4 Comments

SciWriteLabs 8.1: The Lehrer affair, consequence-free plagiarism, and rules for blogging

By Seth Mnookin
Posted: June 28, 2012

Category: Ethics, Journalism, SciWriteLabs | Tagged Carl Zimmer, David Quammen, Deborah Blum, Jack Shafer, Jayson Blair, Jonah Lehrer, Malcolm Gladwell, plagiarism, Rolling Stone, Salon.com, Stephen Glass, The New York Times, The New Yorker | 15 Comments