TON Fellowship Stories

A child wearing cardboard airplane wings and a cloth helmet and goggles stands in a field with one arm thrust upward, as if preparing for flight.

Speculative Journalism Blends Fact and Fiction to Get to the Truth

Shi En Kim

Jamie Lauren Keiles Follows the Surgical and Philosophical Journey of Phalloplasty

Celia Ford

A Lego graduate student sits at a desk behind a black laptop computer. His advisor watches him from the opposite side of the desk.

Demystifying Academic Hierarchies: Who’s Who on a Paper, and Whom Should You Interview?

Celia Ford

Two women smiling at each other while leaning against a wall and grasping each other's arms.

How to Report International Stories Ethically

Shi En Kim

Ankur Paliwal Tells the Tale of a Rare Genetic Disorder and People Who Live with It

Pratik Pawar

A sunflower seedling in a yellow pot with the shadow of a full-grown sunflower projected on a while wall behind it.

The Pitch as Hypothesis: How Stories Evolve through Reporting

Pedro Márquez-Zacarías

A hand erasing a mathematical formula off a blackboard.

Reporting on Retractions

Pratik Pawar

Composite image of the cover of the book Life on the Rocks and author Juli Berwald.

Juli Berwald’s Life on the Rocks Meditates on Coral Reefs, Motherhood, and Battling the Unknown

Celia Ford

A film reel being cut with scissors.

Serving Up Snippets of Science in Short Videos

Carolyn Wilke

Mahdi and Modupe

Mahdi Garba and Modupe Abidakun on the Tragic Origins of Vaccine Hesitancy in Nigeria

Abdullahi Tsanni

An alpaca pokes its head into the side of the frame.

Dibbler Dingles, Worm Blobs, and Fossilized Poop: Finding Humor in Science

Carolyn Wilke

Rosanna Xia

Rosanna Xia Unearths the Story of a Decades-Old DDT Dump off California’s Coast

Carolyn Wilke

Hand holding paper airplane in the sky.

Shedding Sentence Deadweight to Help Science Stories Soar

Carolyn Wilke

Emily Atkin Talks about Objectivity and Covering the Climate Crisis

María Paula Rubiano A.

Frank Matt on Visualizing the Scale of the World’s Water Crisis

Pedro Márquez-Zacarías

Close up of white archive boxes on shelves.

Reporting Unsung Histories of Science

Carolyn Wilke

A glass bottle with a rolled-up message inside, wedged in the sand on a beach.

Making First Contact with Editors

Abdullahi Tsanni

High-angle view of people on a street.

Navigating Qualitative Research

María Paula Rubiano A.