Alexis Sobel Fitts is a contributor to the Columbia Journalism Review, where she writes about digital innovation. Previously she ran The Observatory, CJR's blog providing insightful commentary and explanatory reporting on the science, medical, environmental, and technology press. Her freelance work has appeared in Mother Jones, Wired, Popular Mechanics, and Salon. In 2012 she was a Robert Woods Johnson Foundation fellow in science journalism at Columbia Journalism School.