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Eight Knight Fellows Selected

SCIENCE WRITERS

Eight Knight Fellows Selected

A free lance television news producer and seven staff and free lance 
writers and editors for newspapers and magazines have been chosen Knight 
Science Journalism Fellows at MIT for the academic year 1990-91. The 
newly named fellows are:

Susan Ince, 36, free lance writer for women's magazines, Plainfield, 
N.J.

Jeffrey Johnson, 45, environmental reporter at the Bureau of National 
Affairs, Washington, D.C.

Timothy F. Kirn, 30, of the Rochester, N.Y., Times-Union (formerly with 
the news section of the Journal of the American Medical Association).

William D. Metz, 46, free lance, Washington, D.C. (formerly with Science 
magazine).

Elizabeth Neus, 28, medical reporter at the Cincinnati Enquirer.

Carolyn R. Schatz, 42, free lance television producer,  Watertown, Mass. 
(formerly with NBC News).

Marjorie Shaffer, 33, medical reporter in the New York office of the 
international news service, Reuters.

David H. Smith, 35, news editor of Sky and Telescope magazine, 
Cambridge, Mass.

Choosing the 1990-91 Knight Fellows was a selection committee consisting 
of: Edward Edelson, science editor of the New York Daily News; Philip J. 
Hilts, science reporter for  The New York Times in Washington, D.C.; 
Paul Hoffman, editor of Discover magazine, New York; Gloria Lubkin, 
editor, Physics Today, New York; Victor McElheny, Director of the Knight 
Science Journalism Fellowships; Paul Raeburn, science editor of the 
Associated Press, New York; and Ellis Rubinstein, news editor of Science 
magazine, Washington, D.C.

They selected the eighth group of American science journalists chosen 
for the program, which began in 1983 as the Vannevar Bush Fellowships. 
On their arrival here on September 1, the new fellows will join 
separately funded journalists from foreign countries to be selected this 
summer. 

In the first seven years of the science journalism fellowships, a total 
of 54 American, and 18 fellows from nine other countries have spent the 
year at MIT. The American fellows have come from 16 states and the 
District of Columbia.

The program became the Knight Science Journalism Fellowships in 1987, 
when the Knight Foundation of Akron, Ohio, committed $3.25 million for 
seven years' opeartions. In 1989, the Knight Foundation issued a $5 
million challenge toward endowment, to be matched over five years by 
$2.5 million raised by MIT.