✍️Science Writing News Roundup #146
How to Read Scientific and Research Papers + Media briefing: Avian influenza update.
How to Read Scientific and Research Papers: Advice for Journalists. “As journalists, we often encounter research papers — but that doesn’t mean we know how to get the best out of them. Science papers and raw research is often seen by readers as dry and uninteresting at best, or incomprehensible at worst.” (Photo by Ricky Kharawala on Unsplash)
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👩🔬Articles
The Secret to Never Writing a First Draft: How do you decide what makes it into your story and what doesn’t? How in the world do you craft a clever lede? Which quotes do you use? What is this story about, anyway?
Why the ‘Hawthone effect’ matters when covering medical studies. The Hawthorne effect refers to the idea that people change their behavior when they find out they’re being observed.
TipSheet: Reporters Can Address Uncertainty Over Local Risk of Rising Seas. Climate heating is raising the sea level and though it can be argued whether it will rise slower or faster (or cataclysmically), people living along the coasts will need to pay close attention.
Getting out of your head ~ and out of the way of a true story. For the best stories in his career, a magazine writer had to pay attention to what the story was telling him — and sometimes take long walks.
🖼️Videos/Podcasts
What is the "Global Polycrisis" and How Should Journalists Be Covering It?
The value of new voices in science and journalism, and what makes something memorable
ISOJ 2023: How to improve the coverage of the climate crisis and avoid the “Don’t Look up” scenario
Ankur Paliwal: Why Inclusivity is Better in Science and Journalism
Truth decay: science misinformation and journalistic responses
Pandemic Dreams: A Virtual Conversation with Dr. Deirdre Barrett
📚Opportunities
Elevating climate journalism in 2023 with the Climate Journalism Award and News Impact Summit. With this new award, the EJC and GNI want to showcase the wealth of journalistic formats being used to inform audiences about climate change.
Calls for pitches to write about food and agriculture, science, and more + Awards and fellowships for writers👉Bonus content for monthly supporters.
🎙️News
Winners Announced for 14th Annual DCSWA Newsbrief Award. In the writing category, Shi En Kim won for “Scientists discover how a cell may cheat its own death,” published in Popular Science.
📆Events
How Newsletters Are Changing Food and Farming Journalism (May 18, 2023)
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