Kate Fishman

San Diego

Climate Reporter at The Mendocino Voice

early-career reporting fellow @Open_Notebook 🌊 formerly @Report4America writing about ecology, talking about belonging 💌 kate.fishman.99 @ gmail. com

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Articles

“Long COVID Mode”: Seeing the crisis through games

1 month ago | thesicktimes.org | Kate Fishman

Key points you should know: Canadian professor Steve Wilcox has between 95 and 100% of students in his game design classes masking up with N95s after playing a simple game he designed called “The Haunted Woods.” The game illustrates both the risks of contracting Long COVID and the efficacy of masks in reducing the risk of repeat SARS-CoV-2 infections.
Amar las preguntas: cómo reportear para ensayos periodísticos

Feb 11, 2025 | theopennotebook.com | Kate Fishman

Read in EnglishEste artículo fue traducido por Inés Gutiérrez Jaber y editado por Rodrigo Pérez Ortega. Shayla Love tenía preguntas persistentes sobre los psicodélicos. Como escritora de Vice durante el “renacimiento psicodélico” que despegó en la década de 2010, había estado registrando el renovado interés en los posibles beneficios terapéuticos de las drogas —y notando una suposición interesante que lo acompañaba—.
Loving the Questions: Reporting for Essays

Feb 11, 2025 | theopennotebook.com | Kate Fishman

Léelo en EspañolShayla Love had lingering questions about psychedelics. As a writer for Vice during the “psychedelic renaissance” that took off in the 2010s, she had been chronicling renewed interest in the drugs’ potential therapeutic benefits—and noticing an interesting assumption that accompanied it.
Erica Berry Examines Fear Through Personal and Natural History in Wolfish

Oct 15, 2024 | theopennotebook.com | Kate Fishman

The way freelance essayist Erica Berry sees it, her book has been three books. The first was her undergraduate thesis, a journalistic reporting project about the controversies surrounding wolf repopulation in Oregon, her home state. Then, while getting her MFA in creative nonfiction, she wrote about symbolic wolves after some disquieting and distinctly gendered experiences of fear and anxiety.
Roundtable: Navigating the Newest Social Media Era

Sep 17, 2024 | theopennotebook.com | Kate Fishman

Léelo en EspañolDuring my early years building a career in journalism, many colleagues and mentors offered me the same advice: You have to be on Twitter. At the time, it made sense. The social media platform was the place online to find sources and story ideas, share work, connect with fellow reporters, and follow global events. But that changed when Elon Musk bought Twitter in 2022.
La tormenta perfecta: cómo aprovechar historias sobre el clima para cubrir el cambio climático

Jul 23, 2024 | theopennotebook.com | Kate Fishman

Read in EnglishEste artículo fue traducido por Inés Gutiérrez Jaber y editado por Rodrigo Pérez Ortega. Hunter Williams llega a trabajar a la estación de televisión KVUE en Austin, Texas, a las 2:30 p.m. cada día con una tarea abrumadora: ayudar a los tejanos a entender el clima de la región en pronósticos nocturnos que duran menos de tres minutos cada uno.
Perfect Storm: Harnessing Weather Stories to Cover Climate Change

Jul 23, 2024 | theopennotebook.com | Kate Fishman

Léelo en EspañolHunter Williams arrives to work at the KVUE television station in Austin, Texas, at 2:30 p.m. each day with a daunting task: helping Texans understand the region’s weather in nightly forecasts that last less than three minutes each. As extreme weather intensifies in Williams’s state and across the globe, he must increasingly consider climate change’s influence on his viewers’ lives as part of his job.
The California artists illuminating kelp

Jun 30, 2024 | hcn.org | Kate Fishman

On the first dayI lived in Northern California, I stood on the beach and stared at a golden-green object washed up on the sand — a shining coil with a perfect bulb at one end. It was, I learned, a strand of kelp, and I remember thinking it would make a really cool tattoo. I still haven’t gotten that tattoo, nor have I put on a wetsuit to dive into a kelp forest.
Jaws Just Turned 50. It Created a Monster-And a Golden Era of Shark Science.

Feb 26, 2024 | atmos.earth | Kate Fishman

Ocean Life Science & Nature Art & Culture The myth of a killer shark was a debut novel’s legacy. Since then, a whole lot of curiosity has changed the story. I’ve always felt some cognitive dissonance watching the end of my favorite movie, Jaws.
Online Games Can Deepen Our Attention to Ecology

Jan 29, 2024 | sierraclub.org | Kate Fishman

My Wordle-adjacent amusement of choice these days is a taxonomy game that found viral fame on science Tumblr. To play Metazooa, one builds a web of connections between species by guessing animal names, getting ever closer to the animal of the day. I began on a recent writing break with “snail” and traveled into the depths of Mollusca, the second largest order of invertebrates. As I did, my screen populated with descriptions of each clade and images of intertidal creatures.