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Siri Carpenter’s Biography

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Siri Carpenter is an award-winning journalist and is co-founder and executive director of The Open Notebook, widely regarded as a leading source of training and educational materials for journalists who cover science. She is also the editor of the book The Craft of Science Writing. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, Science, Scientific American, and many other publications. She is a past president of the National Association of Science Writers and was the 2023 winner of the Online New…

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An Invitation to Scribble in the Margins of The Best Science Stories and How They Work

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By Siri Carpenter
| The Open Notebook
The Best Science Stories and How They Work (forthcoming July 21 from the University of Chicago Press) is available for pre-order now. At the risk of being tactless, I must say that I love The Best Science Stories and How They Work: A Collection with Commentary, which will officially launch a week from today. It was an incredible joy to curate and edit this collection of annotations and writer interviews. How could it not be?
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The Best Science Stories and How They Work

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By Siri Carpenter
| press.uchicago.edu
An invitation to engage with some of today’s most respected science journalists as they take readers beneath the surface to tell the stories behind eleven of the best science stories. With eleven deeply reported, artfully crafted stories and annotations by some of the most thoughtful and respected science journalists working today, The Best Science Stories and How They Work is more than the sum of its impressive parts.
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The Open Notebook Turns 15: A Letter from Siri

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By Siri Carpenter
| The Open Notebook
Dear friends of The Open Notebook, Our birthday week is finally here! On Friday, October 24, TON turns FIFTEEN, and I’m thrilled to celebrate alongside you, our incredible community. For the past 15 years, the TON team and I have dedicated our work to empowering journalists to tell stories that matter. We envision a world in which all journalists have the skills and confidence they need to produce evidence-based reporting that engages and informs the public.
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