✍️Science Writing News Roundup #122 (November 4, 2022)
How to make sense of different kinds of scientific studies + New tip sheet for journalists covering long COVID + How to cover COP27
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🖼️ Opportunities
Calls for pitches to write about healthcare, climate solutions, COP27, the environment, careers + Reporting grants and fellowships for science writers👉Bonus content for monthly supporters.
✏️Articles
One Size Does Not Fit All: How to Make Sense of Different Kinds of Scientific Studies. If you write about science, here’s a primer on the kinds of studies you might encounter and how to approach covering them.
Everyone Is a Climate Reporter Now: That’s why journalism schools need to incorporate climate science reporting into their standard curricula.
🔭 Videos
Amy Maxmen on “Inequality as a Frontier for Science Journalism.” Whether covering disease, natural disasters or climate change, science reporters must not only document the uneven effects on society but also explore the roots of those imbalances and what keeps them in place.
Tools for Environmental Reporting & Should we all be Environmental Reporters?
Launch of the Global South Climate Database | Co-hosted by the Reuters Institute and Carbon Brief.
📻 News
New center empowers climate storytellers across the communications landscape: The Center for Climate Journalism and Communication empowers professionals across media, public relations, and strategic and corporate communications to be climate storytellers who advance a deeper understanding of the consequences of climate change.
🧰 Resources
How freelance writers can get the best possible contract 👉Bonus content for monthly supporters.
Read all about it: a toolkit for quality science journalism. A series of toolkits for those working in science communication has been created by the EU-funded QUEST project, with advice for academics and journalists alike.
How to Cover COP27: This Covering Climate Now guide is meant to help fellow journalists think through how to cover this November’s COP27 global climate summit with the urgency it deserves.
Could Biodiversity Be Bee’s Knees for Environmental Journalists This Fall? Biodiversity will be in the news this fall, in large part when a big U.N. conference meets in Montreal Dec. 7–19. Yes, it’s a critical worldwide issue. But have you looked into the local biodiversity concerns near you?
New tip sheet for journalists covering long COVID: In the coming year, more clues are expected to emerge to help unravel the mystery of long COVID as dozens of global study results are released.
💡 Events
Learn more about the Health, Environment and Science specialization within the MS Journalism graduate program at Northwestern University (November 8, 2022)
How and What to Cover at COP27 (November 10, 2022)
A Triple Pandemic this Winter? A Virtual Conversation with New York Times Reporter Apoorva Mandavilli (November 10, 2022)
Info Session: Global Health Inequities and Climate Science Reporting Fellowships (November 10, 2022)
They write about poop. So what are the rest of us so freaked out about? (November 15, 2022)
🚵♀️ Jobs and internships
Climate and Environmental Justice Reporter at Capital & Main (Colorado)
Mental Health Reporter at The Texas Tribune (Texas)
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