It started when "my PhD imploded," Virginia Gewin writes about her introduction to the AAAS Mass Media Fellowship in an essay on the companion web site to the Science Writers' Handbook. Gewin, who spent her 10-week fellowship interning at the Oregonian, writes: "I proved to myself that I could find a story, get the details and write on deadline. Any doubts that this career would make good use of years of scientific training were gone."
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