✍️Science Writing News Roundup #123

The Open Notebook created a list of resources that may be useful for anyone who covers science or wants to do so.

2022 AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Award winners named: The program, endowed by The Kavli Foundation and open to journalists worldwide, drew entries from a record 63 countries this year. Winners included journalists in India, China, Australia, South Korea, Germany and the United Kingdom.

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• Learn how to grow your newsletter + How to find collaborators + How to prepare for a recession + How to be a better freelance journalist + What to do when you're feeling overwhelmed👉Bonus content for monthly supporters.

• What is Mastodon, the social network users are leaving Twitter for? Everything you need to know.

• In interview craft session, panelists offer tips for breathing life into narrative stories. When writing narrative pieces, journalists must rely on more than their witty word craft to bring a story alive – but finding color for stories is an acquired skill.

The Open Notebook @Open_Notebook

Don’t you wish someone would pull together a whole bunch of amazing science writing resources and put them in one place for all to find? So do we … so we did! Behold!

theopennotebook.comResources (Elsewhere) That We Like - The Open NotebookWe aren’t the only show in town when it comes to supporting high-quality science journalism! On this page, you’ll find lots of other resources (elsewhere) that center on science journalism craft, including university degree programs and courses in science writing, workshops and other training opport…

🎫 Opportunities

• Calls for pitches to write about science and technology, global health, HIV, climate change, and more + Reporting grants and fellowships for science writers👉Bonus content for monthly supporters.

• Applications are open for Product Immersion intensive training (for the Americas), hosted by the Craig Newmark Graduate School for Journalism at CUNY, in partnership with News Product Alliance and the Google News Initiative.

NW Science Writers @nswa

Have you submitted your work for our writing awards yet? Don't let imposter syndrome stop you. YOU DESESRVE THIS! Do it! (But do it by Nov 30) nwscience.org/news/the-2022-…

🏙️ Articles

• How curiosity about cats inspired practical science stories: Atlantic science reporter Katherine J. Wu has made a mini-beat out of wondering about the unanswered questions to everyday life.

• Personal essay: What Good Is Science Writing? Public skepticism has cast a shadow over medicine and those who report on it. Yet for both professions, the mission continues.

• What climate justice means to journalists on the emergency’s front lines: Five reporters from the Global South talk disasters, hope, and this month’s COP27.

• To tell the human story around abortions, journalists must balance medical accuracy with community voices and societal contexts.

Cristiana Bedei @critalks

💁‍♀️Turns out you don't need to live in London/NYC etc. to work as a journalist. Super happy to share tips from @ArleneHarris11 @EmilyPopek and Cecilia Anesi from @irpinvestigates on making it outside major cities. On @IJNet ijnet.org/en/story/tips-…

ijnet.orgTips for journalists working outside major citiesBig cities seem to be the centers of everything, including the media industry. One in five newsroom employees in the U.S. work in New York, Los Angeles or Washington, D.C. In the U.K., 39% of all freelancers and 49% of all employee journalists live in London.

CEITEC @CEITEC_Brno

Step out of the comfort zone of your lab, meet people outside your community and get a different perspective👓 👆This is the advice of Edwin Colyer, the 1st-ever #ScienceJournalistFellow funded by @ERC_Research. How does he perceive his internship?🤔 ceitec.eu/one-month-in-b…

ceitec.euOne month in Brno through the eyes of a British science journalistBritish science journalist Edwin Colyer has written about science for almost 25 years. He spent this October at CEITEC, Masaryk University and other Brno institutions as the first-ever Science Journalist Fellow funded by the European Research Council (ERC). The ERC established this initiative to…

🎭Videos/Podcasts

• Telling the Best Stories in Science: Let's Talk Storytelling with Editors, Authors, and Podcasters.

• Improving the numbers in the news: Tim Harford and guests discuss the role statistics should play in the reporting of the news.

• Amal Ahmed: Fall 2022 Smith-Patterson Science Journalism Lecture: Climate reporter Amal Ahmed shares her Pulitzer Center-funded reporting from the front lines of climate change on the Texas Coast.

• Information session for prospective applicants to the MIT Graduate Program in Science Writing.

• Master of Science Journalism Prospective Student Information Session (Boston University)

• How to push the climate crisis up the news agenda in the Middle East - a Twitter Spaces conversation.

• Amplifying the voices of climate experts from the Global South: In this episode of Future of Journalism, Eduardo Suárez, Diego Arguedas Ortiz, and Ayesha Tandon look at a project to improve climate coverage by making scientists and experts from overlooked regions more accessible.

🎙️Events

• Preventing the Next Pandemic: A Roundtable Discussion with Laurie Garrett (November 15, 2022)

• They write about poop. So what are the rest of us so freaked out about? A Kavli Conversation on Science Communication with Lina Zeldovich and Bryn Nelson. Moderated by Anna Rothschild. (November 15, 2022)

• Disability & Science Journalism: Writing from Experience & Reporting on People with Disabilities (November 15, 2022). Read this tweet for more details.

• Experts on Camera - Dr. Kelly Rohan: Beating the winter blues (November 15, 2022)

• Press the Button LIVE: Nuclear Policy in Crisis (November 16, 2022)

• SciCommers Mentor Chat Series - Climate Communication with the 51% Project's Sarah Finnie Robinson (November 17, 2022)

• Small Videos, Big Ideas - the BBC’s Melissa Hogenboom. AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Award Lecture by Melissa Hogenboom on Engaging Science Journalism. (November 17, 2022)

• Why Is There So Little Interest in Public Health Compared to the Latest Medical Breakthroughs? (November 17, 2022)

🌍 Jobs and internships

• Senior Climate Reporter at The China Global South Project (Remote)

• Science Writer at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (US-based)

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