✍️Science Writing News Roundup #110 (August 11, 2022)
Streamline your writing: From pitching to publishing + What we know about how monkeypox is spreading.
“Why I wrote a children’s book about nanoscience.” Dr. Jess Wade has written pages on nanoscience-related topics for Wikipedia and, most recently, set out to explain nanoscience in a children’s picture book. (Image: Amazon)
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Opportunities
Calls for pitches: Write about health care, science in general, nature and science, parenting, and mental health + Fellowships and training programs for journalists. (Bonus content for monthly supporters🚀)
Call for applications: Media workshop and story grants to report on Mekong water governance from a gender and social inclusion lens.
Resources
What we know about how monkeypox is spreading — and what we still don’t know. Although monkeypox first surfaced more than six decades ago, public health officials say this outbreak is different.
Grow your data journalism toolkit with Knight Center course on R programming language. 📅
Tips to make your visual journalism more accessible. As content on the Internet becomes increasingly visual, what can journalists around the world do to make their visual journalism available to everyone? 🖌️
Articles
What’s standard deviation? 4 things journalists covering research need to know. Scientists can use standard deviation to make predictions, investigate trends and answer other key research questions. 📈
Get the most out of AI writing tools with prompt engineering. To get anything noteworthy out of an AI writing app, figuring out what—and how—to ask is a crucial first step.
Supercharge your environmental investigative stories with data and visuals. As the glaciers melt and forests burn, and Europe joins the list of places experiencing hottest-ever temperatures, the need for environmental stories that dig into climate change is more pressing than ever. 🌳
Videos
Dr. Rachel Hardeman: Racial inequities in pregnancy-related death
Talking Shop | Covering the Human Impacts of Extreme Heat 🗣️
Science Writer & Broadcaster, Philip Ball | The Human Podcast #16 (Philip Ball is a popular freelance science writer, broadcaster and author. He’s written for Nature for over 20 years, broadcast BBC podcasts, lectured for the Royal Institution, and authored 27 books.)
Podcasts
Summer of '22 Special Series: Covering Pandemics with Apoorva Mandavilli.
Signing Statistics | Stats + Stories with Dr. Regina Nuzzo, a freelance science writer and professor in Washington, DC. 📊
How to improve climate change coverage: Ideas from three reporters around the world. 🌿
Environmental Journalism, Part 5: Reporting on environmental crime.
Events
Streamline your writing: From pitching to publishing. This virtual panel will help science journalists and PIOs work faster and more efficiently. It will cover all stages of the writing process, from information gathering to writing and fact-checking. The panelists will offer guidance on how to streamline your workflow, plus time-saving hacks and tips for getting unstuck. (August 13, 2022)
In Conversation: Ceridwen Dovey and Bianca Nogrady On Writing Science Stories (August 17, 2022)
Jobs and internships
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