Welcome back for another installment of Ask TON. (Click on “Ask TON” above to see previous installments.) Today’s question: I feel like I waste a lot of time when I’m reporting for feature articles — feeling hazy about what I’m aiming to learn, asking the wrong questions, having to go back and ask a lot [...]
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Ask TON: Anonymous sources
Posted by Jeanne Erdmann and Siri Carpenter on December 21st, 2011
Welcome back for another installment of Ask TON. (Wondering what Ask TON is? See here for background information and our introductory post. Click on “Ask TON” above to see previous installments.) Today’s question: Should anonymous (unattributed) quotes be used to develop stories which would not be possible without them — such as when individuals are unwilling [...]
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Tags: Anonymity, Ask TON, Ethics, Interviewing, Peplow, Travis, Witze 
No Comments »Happy Birthday to us! And…introducing “Ask TON”
Posted by Jeanne Erdmann and Siri Carpenter on October 24th, 2011
TON is one! A year ago today, The Open Notebook published our first stories, launching an ongoing series of “story behind the story” interviews with some of the science journalists whose work we admire. Our idea then, as now, was that despite the changing marketplace for science journalism, craftsmanship still matters. With that in mind, [...]
Adam Rutherford eulogizes the space shuttle
Posted by Alexandra Witze on August 2nd, 2011
Knowing that NASA would soon cease operating its shuttles, Nature’s video team decided to create a music video showing each flight in chronological order. What began as a labor of love soon descended into months of slogging through VHS tapes, but the final product scored some 80,000 hits in its first week online. Here, team [...]
Posted in Behind-the-Story Interviews Tags: Guest Contributor, NASA, Nature, Rutherford, Video, Witze, Writer Interview 2 Comments »