It is the newspaper of record for the field. Features should demonstrate an understanding of the field but have a more informal, narrative feel. RSN welcomes submissions and story ideas. Your piece is not a scholarly treatise and therefore you should avoid footnotes, specialized research language, or knowledge of canonical works in your subfield. Please don t write as you would for a journal article.
Vignettes are good.
Readers want to know something about you as a person, with a story worth sharing. We encourage you to include such information in the piece where appropriate or to write a biographical sidebar that says a bit about your background, research, teaching commitments, etc. Also, use sidebars to present related materials or a lot of facts. The RSN editor will ask for clarifications or amplification as needed. RSN reserves the right to edit the piece for content, length, and format.