MIT professor of science writing Tom Levenson discusses his new book, “The Hunt for Vulcan…And How Albert Einstein Destroyed a Planet, Discovered Relativity, and Deciphered the Universe”.
Video, podcast, and liveblog: “Long-form Journalism: Inside The Atlantic”
James Fallows and Corby Kummer on long-form journalism and why ground-breaking articles requiring months of research and writing continue to appear.
Long-form Journalism: Inside The Atlantic
James Fallows and Corby Kummer of The Atlantic chart the journey of a major feature story from conception to publication and speculate about the future of long-form journalism in the digital age.
In Medias Res, Fall 2013
The CMS/W magazine, highlighting the gains of the recent merger of CMS and Writing at MIT and the fruits of their decade-plus collaboration.
Podcast: “Public Communications in Slow-Moving Crises”
Like the Gulf oil spill, some crises slow moving. The media struggle to rhetorically or technologically cover these simmering, rather than boiling, dramas.
