Founded in 2018, and based in Atlanta, The Xylom is a non-profit, Gen-Z-run newsroom covering the communities influencing and being shaped by science. We are the only science outlet run by and for the Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) community.
Our reporting revolves around three questions:
1. "How can science look more like us?"
2. "How are scientists shaped by what happens outside t
he lab?"
3. "How do people respond to the changing world through science?"
We do so through an award-winning collection of original personal essays, longform science features, and resources for early-career science professionals. We also send a twice-monthly newsletter curating the best science stories in the American South and beyond. You might've heard of us when:
• the City of Atlanta deleted a press release after we fact-checked their numerous false claims about the "environmental stewardship" of the Atlanta Public Safety Training Center ("Cop City"),
• we became the only outlet in North America to regularly produce science coverage in the Nepali language (among another half-dozen languages we publish in),
• we were the first non-Indian outlet to report on the devastating ecological and economic impacts of the Mumbai Coastal Road as it approaches completion. Our staff and contributors have won the National Academies Eric and Wendy Schmidt Awards for Excellence in Science Communications, an Atlanta Press Club Award, an Anthem Award, and AAAS Mass Media Fellowships. We are 100% supported by readers and grants. We will never have a paywall, nor do we sell ads or do sponsored content. We do believe in an open, real-time budget that is accurate to the cent and allows you to see exactly how your donations are making an impact. Let's grow science with words, together.
The Xylom operates under the auspices of our fiscal host Open Collective Foundation (OCF), a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization based out of California. EIN Number 81-4004928.
