Paul Raeburn marks the return of the Tracker (formerly the Knight Science Journalism Tracker) with a post on two recent incidents, including Caltech's playing favorites with its news release on Planet 9: "The school won’t identify them, but Scientific American, the Washington Post, Science, and Popular Science were among publications that produced stories on Jan. 20 with comments from one or both of the study’s authors, suggesting they had the early access."
March 8, 2016