This past August, The GroundTruth Project and SiliconANGLE Media’s theCUBE announced the winners of a new reporting fellowship for women in technology. This fellowship pilot program is the inaugural effort for the TechTruth initiative, which aims to train and support a new generation of journalists to cover the intersection of technology and social justice.Three fellows and two junior fellows earned a month-long fellowship that focused on training at GroundTruth’s headquarters at WGBH in Boston, as well as the opportunity to report on theCUBE during the 2016 Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing in Houston

The tech industry is growing at a rapid pace, and it is also becoming more popular with students at the high school level. How do these young students see themselves in the industry, and what perspectives are they taking away? The GroundTruth Project and theCUBE’s “Women in Tech” Fellowship project appointed two Junior Fellows to explore these questions and other important questions regarding technology and the gender gap.Junior Fellows Alicia Mies and Peter Maroulis talked with Rebecca Knight (@knightrm), host of theCUBE, from the SiliconANGLE Media team, during the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing about journalism and women in computing