by Kerry Klein | Mar 16, 2015 | Posts
After decades as a science reporter, interim director of the Kansas Geological Survey Rex Buchanan now finds himself at the epicenter of a media frenzy. When Rex Buchanan became interim director of the Kansas Geological Survey in 2010, earthquakes there were...
by Kerry Klein | Dec 19, 2014 | Posts
On Oct. 8, 2013, Carolyn Branecky received news no Ph.D. student ever wants to hear: her research project could be pushed back a year, or worse. The U.S. government had shut down a week earlier, and federally funded research was put on hold until Congress voted on a...
by Kerry Klein | Nov 14, 2014 | Posts
There’s a scourge eating away at the quality of online journalism. It’s not just the partisan news outlets, the well-disguised native advertising, or the websites full of off-the-wall rants; it’s sites that publish such a range of material that the good reporting is...