✍️Science Writing News Roundup #147
End of the COVID-19 federal public health emergency: What’s next.
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🥁Opportunities
The AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Awards 2023 contest is open for submissions. The contest is open to journalists worldwide, and the deadline is August 1.
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📌Resources
Quotes from experts | End of the COVID-19 federal public health emergency: What’s next. What should people know about the current state of the COVID pandemic and how it might affect them personally?
7 tips for repurposing pitches for multiple markets. Researching and writing queries can be the most dreaded part of being a freelance writer. But the work and time that goes into creating pitches can go farther and net more income by taking one idea and reworking it for different publications.
The Online News Association releases 2023 COVID-19 misinformation playbook. The playbook, edited by Chicago-based freelance reporter Meena Thiruvengadam, is well-researched and easy to use. It aims to help new reporters get up to speed on their COVID coverage and serves as a guide for journalists covering public health emergencies in the future.
FactCheck Post: Warming Beyond 1.5 C Harmful, But Not a Point of No Return, as Biden Claims. It’s increasingly likely that the planet will reach 1.5 degrees Celsius, or 2.7 degrees Fahrenheit, of warming, probably within the next two decades. But while that level of warming comes with a variety of dangerous effects, it’s not a point of no return, scientists say, and it doesn’t mean “we’re done,” as President Joe Biden has claimed.
Funding Initiative May Help Surface Overlooked Environmental Justice Stories. Injustice has been part of U.S. environmental history — and environmental news — since the early days of the beat. Finding environmental injustice, understanding it and explaining are all key parts of the environmental journalist’s job. Now the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is starting an initiative that may help.
📝Articles
Storygram: Fletcher Reveley’s “In El Salvador and Beyond, an Unsolved Kidney Disease Mystery.” In the Storygrams series, The Open Notebook annotates noteworthy science stories to explore what makes them so outstanding. With each Storygram, they present an interview with the author.
Research shows spike in youth suicide attempts, depression after the COVID-19 pandemic began. Two new meta-analyses synthesize the findings of dozens of studies on attempted suicide, self-harm, depression and anxiety among kids after COVID-19 began to spread.
Guide for covering climate solutions should add health to its list of beats. As more journalists and organizations begin covering climate change, there is a need for information about how to cover this critical topic from a solutions perspective, according to Covering Climate Now.
Opinion | To build trust in the age of AI, journalists need new standards and disclosures. Newsrooms need accessible standards about their use of AI to maintain trust with news consumers and ensure accountability of the press.
💻Videos/Podcasts
Towards Neurodiverse Journalism: A Kavli Conversation with Devon Price and Eric Garcia, moderated by Anna Rothschild.
Write Now with Scrivener, Episode no. 26: Jaime Green, Science Journalist. Jaime talked about the process of publishing her first book; about the time it takes from manuscript submission to publication, and the anxiety waiting for that big day. It’s a long, slow process, going through the stages of editing, proofreading, and production.
🗺️News
Diverse Voices in Science Journalism Interns to Spend the Summer Writing for Science. AAAS has announced the 2023 participants in its Diverse Voices in Science Journalism internshipterns: Tanvi Dutta Gupta, who is completing an undergraduate degree in biology and a master’s degree in earth systems at Stanford University, and Celina Zhao, who is studying science writing and biology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Twelve outstanding journalists named 2023 MBL Logan Science Journalism Fellows. Now in its 36th year, the Logan Science Journalism Program provides journalists with immersive, hands-on research training, giving them invaluable insight into the practice of science as well as some of the major news stories of today.
🛤️Events
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