The Science Reporting Navigator was created through a partnership between The Open Notebook and the Reynolds Journalism Institute to help journalists integrate more scientific evidence and perspectives into their daily work. Learn more about the team that created this resource below.
Rachel Zamzow is Deputy Executive Director at The Open Notebook and is an award-winning science journalist and editor. At TON, Rachel commissions and edits stories, manages editorial production, and oversees development of training and mentoring programs to equip local journalists with the skills they need to bring scientific evidence into their stories. As an independent journalist, she reports stories about neuroscience and ethics in science for several publications, including Science, Science News, and The Transmitter. Rachel has a PhD in Neuroscience from the University of Missouri, and she lives in Waco, Texas.
Siri Carpenter is Executive Director and Editor-in-Chief of The Open Notebook. She is an award-winning science journalist and editor whose writing and editorial work has appeared in The New York Times, Science, Discover, Scientific American, bioGraphic, Science News, Science News for Students, and many other publications. She has a PhD in psychology from Yale University and is a past president of the National Association of Science Writers (2018-2020). She lives in Madison, Wisconsin.
Kate Fishman is a freelance journalist based in San Diego, California and a former early-career fellow at The Open Notebook. Her career in local news has taken her from Ohio to Pennsylvania to California’s Mendocino County, where she covered environmental regulation and natural resources as a Report for America corps member and cultivated a love for writing about ecology. Her science and environmental reporting has appeared in Sierra Magazine, Reuters, and Atmos, among other publications. She also produces and hosts an interview podcast about loneliness, makes coffees, and loves to dance.
Sriya Reddy is the Innovation Team Project Manager at the Reynolds Journalism Institute. She cultivates and manages innovative partnership projects that produce practical tools, resources and programming to address a current need, gap or challenge in journalism. She earned a Master’s in Journalism from Northwestern University specializing in Media Innovation and Content Strategy. She was a product intern at CalMatters and a Report for America corps member with The Dallas Morning News. She received three degrees from her undergraduate studies at Southern Methodist University, which were in Journalism, History, and Corporate Communications and Public Affairs (CCPA).
Kat Duncan is Director of Innovation at the Reynolds Journalism Institute, where she leads RJI’s innovative initiatives, programs and workshops. This includes the Professional Fellowship program, the Student Innovation Competition, and the Student Innovation Fellowship program. She founded the Community-Centered Symposium and the Women in Journalism Workshop and runs them annually. She also manages the innovation team, student staff and leads partnership projects with local newsrooms, organizations and individuals. She teaches Emerging Tech & Innovation at the Missouri School of Journalism.
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