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Seema Yasmin

Seema Yasmin

Why Your Heroes Should Be Imperfect

I gave a TEDx talk in Dallas about my mentor who was killed on Malaysia Airlines flight MH17. The audio is awful so here’s a transcript.

Aug 24, 2018

Why Your Heroes Should Be Imperfect

Aug 24, 2018

Seema Yasmin
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JSK Class of 2018

A Survival Kit For Journalists Of Colour

You left because the editors shut down your pitches. Or because they said yes but never ran those columns, the ones you felt most…

Jun 5, 2018

A Survival Kit For Journalists Of Colour

Jun 5, 2018

Seema Yasmin
in
JSK Class of 2018

Covering an epidemic is like covering conflict: Why science reporters should be trained like war…

Should science reporters be trained like war correspondents? For the last seven months I’ve been exploring misinformation and ways to…

Apr 17, 2018

Covering an epidemic is like covering conflict: Why science reporters should be trained like war…

Apr 17, 2018

Seema Yasmin

The anniversary of a Texas tornado

This essay about the Dallas tornado outbreak of December 26, 2015 won the Mayborn literary non-fiction essay award and originally appeared…

Dec 27, 2017

The anniversary of a Texas tornado

Dec 27, 2017

Seema Yasmin

Epidemics of misinformation and why we should stop oversimplifying things

Notes from a speech to the World Congress of Science and Factual Producers in San Francisco, December 1, 2017.

Dec 2, 2017

Epidemics of misinformation and why we should stop oversimplifying things

Dec 2, 2017

Seema Yasmin

An Exploration of Fear

On Tuesdays, I do four scary things before 4 p.m. First, I balance on a bike and cycle through the streets of Palo Alto onto Stanford’s…

Nov 29, 2017

An Exploration of Fear

Nov 29, 2017

Seema Yasmin

Seema Yasmin

I’m a doctor, disease detective, poet & journalist. Currently, I’m a John S. Knight Journalism Fellow at Stanford studying the spread of rumors during epidemics

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