Reported Features

August Rodin's statue THE THINKER.

#$%^* This: What Else Are My Skills Good For?

Helen Fields

A group of Lego people stand in a group.

Data Journalism: A Primer for Science Journalists

Tina Casagrand

Two sets of train tracks diverging.

Track Changes: From Writer to Editor

Corinna Wu

A two-page page from the Planner Pad. Each page is divided into three sections.

Tools: Planner Pad, the Funnel of Focus

Christie Aschwanden

A bar chart showing a distribution of incomes in vertical blue bars. The range is from $25,000 to $120,000, and the highest bar is at the $45,000 point.

Show Me the Money: The Economics of Freelance Science Journalism

Rose Eveleth and Rachel Nuwer

A pie chart showing the (binary) gender distribution of authors of the Open Education Database's listing of best 100 science books of all time. The vast majority are by men.

The XX Question

Deborah Blum

How to Ace a 300-Word Story: An Interview with Roy Peter Clark

Anne Sasso

A small group of people gather on and around a fishing boat on an expansive beach. A photographer stands nearby taking their photo.

Pictures and Prose: When Photographers and Writers Work Together

Erik Vance

Butterfly On A Bullet

Robert Lee Hotz

A stack of open magazines.

The Big Leap: From Article to Book

Helen Fields

Serendipity Story: Hillary Rosner

Christie Aschwanden

Serendipity Story: Cynthia Graber

Cynthia Graber

Close-up of a four-leaf clover.

Serendipity Stories: A New TON Series

TON Editors

A silhouetted figure sitting against a tree on the edge of an ocean beach.

The Art of the Essay

Cameron Walker

A man in a light jacket and tall rubber boots stands in a field next to a border collie, with a white sheep in the background.

Serendipity Story: A Pitch in Sheep’s Clothing

Jim Kling

Layers of wavy lines on a dark blue background, evoking the concept of a graph.

By the Numbers: Essential Statistics for Science Writers

Stephen Ornes

Are You an Editor or a Writer? Part II: The Editors

Christie Aschwanden