✍️Science Writing News Roundup #131
Building science graphics + Journalism, media, and technology trends and predictions 2023
Five science writers receive Diversity Reporting Grants from the National Association of Science Writers. Congratulations to Genevive Bjorn, Izzy Bloom, Jennifer Tsai, Melba Newsome, and Shady Grove Oliver!
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☄️ Opportunities
Calls for pitches to write about biology, mental health, climate and the environment, and more 👉Bonus content for monthly supporters.
The Open Notebook is now accepting applications for participation in the Covering Science Slack community. They are seeking participants who work as reporters or editors (staff or freelance) at U.S.-based local, regional, and general assignment media outlets who don’t consider science to be their beat but who are interested in incorporating science coverage into their work!
The National Association of Science Writers and its Awards Committee once again welcome entries for its Science in Society (SIS) Journalism Awards and its Excellence in Institutional Writing Awards (EIWA). Each year, these #SciWriAwards recognize some of the best works in science journalism and science writing. Deadline to enter is Feb. 1, 2023!
🌅 Resources
Visual health misinformation: A primer and research roundup. With rapid advances in technology, it’s becoming easier to create and spread visual content that’s inaccurate, misleading and dangerous. There are similarities and differences between visual health misinformation and other types of visual misinformation.
Jen Christiansen—Building Science Graphics: An Illustrated Guide to Communicating Science through Diagrams and Visualizations. This book is both a textbook and a practical reference for anyone that needs to convey scientific information in an illustrated form for articles, poster presentations, slide shows, press releases, blog posts, social media posts and beyond.
📢 Videos
🔬 Articles
Ask a scientist: Confronting Putin’s nuclear threat. Eryn MacDonald looks at the potential consequences of President Putin’s nuclear saber-rattling.
Abstracts written by ChatGPT fool scientists. Researchers cannot always differentiate between AI-generated and original abstracts.
Journalism, media, and technology trends and predictions 2023. Expect a step change in news media’s coverage of the climate emergency and a breakthrough year for artificial intelligence.
📅 Events
Prioritizing mental health in the newsroom: How to create a culture of well-being (January 17, 2023)
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