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Kathy Sawyer covered space science and technology for The Washington Post for seventeen years, beginning with the 1986 Challenger accident and including the 2003 loss of the space shuttle Columbia. Her work has also been published in magazines such as National Geographic and Astronomy.
“When we talk about the marriage of science and journalism, our dilemma is clear. Science is slow, patient, precise, careful, conservative and complicated. Journalism is hungry for headlines and drama, fast, short, very imprecise at times.”
----Sawyer, quoted in Worlds Apart: How the Distance Between Science and Journalism Threatens America’s Future, by Hartz and Chappell (First Amendment Center).
Kathy, in her first book, The Rock From Mars: A Detective Story on Two Planets (Random House) “realizes the full potential of a great science story in all its multidimensional complexity and richness…” –The American Scientist
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News & Updates
The Rock From Mars is Honored by the National Academies
The nation’s premier scientific advisory body has selected Sawyer’s The Rock From Mars: A Detective Story on Two Planets as one of the three best books of the previous year. “You were selected from among more than 250 nominations” for the 2007 Communication Award in the book category, the leaders of The National Academies wrote Sawyer at the time of the public announcement. MORE »
See the National Academies press release to learn more about the awards.