✍️Science Writing News Roundup #136
How to improve your fact-checking process + How to cover Indigenous communities + How to write for SEO
What we know about health, environmental concerns following the Ohio train derailment. The situation is worrisome, and investigations into the effects for the people closest to the disaster are just getting started. (Image: NTSB, Wikipedia)
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Don’t say ‘prove’: How to report on the conclusiveness of research findings. This tip sheet explains why it's rarely accurate for news stories to report that a new study proves anything — even when a press release says it does.
Writing for Nonprofit Ecology and Conservation Magazines: A sampling of nonprofit eco-publications.
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Interview: Navin Singh Khadka Connects Global Climate Change to Local Consequences. Khadka talks with journalist Abhaya Raj Joshi about how he finds compelling climate change stories from all over the world—sometimes without leaving his desk—and draws connections between global changes and local impacts.
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Science for All – With a Very Personal Approach. Science journalist Lars Fischer has received the GDCh Prize for Journalism and Literature 2022 for his excellent way of bringing chemistry and other natural sciences closer to all target groups, especially via digital formats.
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Harvard Science Book Talk: Simon Clark "Firmament: The Hidden Science of Weather, Climate Change and the Air That Surrounds Us"
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Author Isabel Thomas' top writing tips. Isabel Thomas, science writer and children’s author for Collins, shares her journey to becoming a published author, and her top three tips for writing educational text
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