✍️Science Writing News Roundup #120 (October 22, 2022)
What you need to know about fact-checking + Platforms to build your portfolio + Learn how to assess science-based claims + How to write about marginalized communities
Applications for the AAAS Mass Media Science & Engineering Fellowship are now open! This 10-week summer program places science, engineering, and mathematics US-based students at media organizations nationwide. Fellows use their academic training as they research, write, and report today’s headlines, sharpening their abilities to communicate complex scientific issues to the public. (Image: AAAS)
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📌 Opportunities
Calls for pitches to write about health, the environment, wildlife, science, and more + Training opportunities and fellowships for science writers👉Bonus content for monthly supporters.
Internews’ Earth Journalism Network invites Indigenous journalists from around the world to apply for a two-day Indigenous workshop, to be held in Kenya from Tuesday 21st February - Friday 24th February 2023.
Internews’ Earth Journalism Network invites journalists from India to apply for a media workshop on covering pathways to Net Zero, to be held in Kolkata from February 1-3, 2023, and journalists from South Africa to apply for a media workshop to be held in Johannesburg from January 30-February 1, 2023.
🥗 Resources
What you need to know about fact-checking + Platforms to build your portfolio + Learn how to assess science-based claims + How to write about marginalized communities👉Bonus content for monthly supporters.
CCNow’s TV special ‘Burning Questions’ airs October 25: Will humanity act in time to preserve a livable planet?
🎬 Videos/Podcasts
Preventing the next pandemic: New tools for global surveillance.
2022 Mary Alice Davis Distinguished Lecture in Journalism. Ed Yong - The Art of Science Journalism.
Communicating the Earth Observatory: Author Kevin Krajick (senior editor for science news at the Earth Institute and Columbia Climate School.)
🦜 Tweets
🔔 Articles
AAAS Kavli Lecture: Megan Molteni on what to do when experts are getting it wrong.
Three tips for working with a guest editor: The editor of The Week Junior Science+Nature shares his experience of working with a well-known BBC personality who would "inspire children to dream '“big, crazy dreams”'
How to report on animal research fairly and transparently: “Reporting on this thorny subject requires journalistic rigor and compassion, sensitivity toward sources, and emphasis on the larger goals behind the research,” Celia Ford writes. “But the extra effort will pay off in making your stories on animal research more nuanced and compelling.”
Opinion: Science has a communication problem – and a connection problem. The public needs to see scientists as people, rather than simply sources of information. What barriers stand in the way?
🍕 Events
Podcasting 101 (October 26, 2022)
Climate, Conflict, and Food Security in Africa (October 26, 2022)
Rethinking Cities in the Face of Extreme Heat (October 26, 2022)
SciCommers Mentor Chat Series - Meet the Editors (October 27, 2022)
Editor Night at SPS: What we learned in the pandemic (October 27, 2022)
2022 Carnegie International Nuclear Policy Conference (October 27-28, 2022)
Science Journalism Forum (October 29 - November 4, 2022)
A conversation with Rhett Ayers Butler, the founder of Mongabay, a global, nonprofit environmental science and conservation news platform (November 3, 2022)
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