✍️Science Writing News Roundup #116 (September 23, 2022)
Covering the Trans Health Crisis + Getting Started on Media Entrepreneurship
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📰Resources
CASW offers new online mini-course starting Sep 21. CASW announced a new online mini-course, with an in-person concluding workshop, to help journalists accurately interpret scientific evidence for their audiences. They’re recruiting a small group to participate in a pilot over the next month.
TinyWow: File management and so much more. If you get tired of hopping around the web from tool to tool just to get a simple project done, you’re going to love TinyWow.
Learn how to spot sound science with a new online course in Science Literacy. We are often told not to believe everything we read online or see on TV—but how do we tell the difference between sensationalized statistics and a real scientific study?
🗺️Opportunities
Call for Science Journalist in Residence: The Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA) offers a residency program for science journalists. The program aims to promote high-quality science journalism, to enable exchange between journalists and researchers, and to explore new ways of disseminating research insights into the public sphere.
Calls for pitches: Opportunities to write about the environment, health, science in general, journalism, and more + Fellowships/reporting grants for journalists👉Bonus content for monthly supporters.
📌Articles
Reduce social media stress with these 9 tips. How can journalists avoid the worst parts of social media, and how can they use it for the public good?
KQED started tracking sources. Here’s (exactly) how they did it.
With NASW funding, freelance creatives give voice to those seeking to be seen and heard.
Are we getting the real stuff in popular science? When it comes to physics, says Sean Carroll, you need the math.
📑News
AHCJ announces 2022-23 SHERF fellows: Twelve journalists have been selected for the 2022-2023 National Science-Health-Environment Reporting Fellowships (SHERF).
The National Book Foundation announced the Longlist for the 2022 National Book Award for Nonfiction. The Finalists in all five categories will be revealed on Tuesday, October 4.
🐦Tweets
📺Videos
Peer pressure: Does peer review help or hinder science reporting?
Lessons learned from the coronavirus pandemic (with Ed Yong) | The Atlantic Festival 2022
📅Events
Let's Get Social: Leveraging Social Media for Science (September 28, 2022)
Talking Shop: Making Climate Part of Our Midterms Reporting (September 28, 2022)
Science Misinformation: Journalism in the Age of Truth Decay (September 29, 2022)
Covering the Trans Health Crisis (October 3, 2022)
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