✍️Science Writing News Roundup #150
Reporting with Numbers + How to Center People in Science Stories + How to Co-byline a Story.
“Reporting with Numbers” is an open-access guide designed to help journalists communicate numbers and statistics to audiences in a way that’s comprehensible, accessible, informative, and engaging. (Image: Pixabay)
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🌏Resources
How to Center People in Science Stories: This free course will teach you how to weave human enthusiasms, foibles and experiences into your science journalism. By the end of the course, you’ll know how to make character central to your stories.
AI in the newsroom: the ethical approach. AI-tools are hugely beneficial to so many newsrooms but they come at a cost. The cost, if you don’t have the right policies in place, can be reputational damage, legal trouble and damage to audience trust.
How To Crack Climate Misinformation: A new tool from global news agency AFP helps journalists recognize and report on false or misleading claims.
Advanced digital investigations: Sign up for Knight Center course to learn how to dig into information and sources online.
The expanding role of Medicaid in US health care: Here is a research roundup of a few studies that can inform reporters about key debates happening about this program.
🧰Articles
Sharing Is Caring: How to Co-byline a Story. “Collaborating with others to report or write a story provides numerous advantages,” Giuliana Viglione writes. “It allows reporters to cast a wider net, or combine different skillsets and expertise to deepen a piece.”
Why Scientists Need Media Training: Media training is essential for scientists to effectively communicate their work and its impact on the broader world.
How AI-generated images are complicating efforts to combat disinformation.
Covering abortion as a health care issue in all its complexity, politics aside.
A typical workday for freelancer Melba Newsome. Newsome’s byline has appeared in publications including Scientific American, Newsweek, Bloomberg, AARP, Wired, North Carolina Health News and many others.
Hot tap water injures thousands of people in the US annually. An inexpensive device can help prevent these burns.
🎥Videos/Podcasts
Navigating Freelance Career Transitions with Simone Stolzoff
Set Yourself Up Well for Freelancing When You’re Full-Time with Karen Given
The Nobel Prize Summit brought together leading experts in a conversation on how we can combat misinformation, restore trust in science and create a hopeful future.
The i Podcast: Is AI a bigger threat to your job – or your life?
🧭Opportunities
Call for Applications: Communicators’ Workshop on Renewable Energy in Lucknow, India. Internews’ Earth Journalism Network (EJN) invites communicators from India to join a workshop on renewable energy in Lucknow from July 14-16, 2023.
Calls for pitches to write about policy and science, technology, health, climate, and more + Fellowships and awards for science writers👉Bonus content for monthly supporters.
📡News
The Open Notebook welcomes the 2023 Sharon Dunwoody Science Journalism Mentoring Program Cohort. The mentees will each spend nine months working one-on-one with their mentors to explore their career interests.
📆Events
Dr. Hilary Seligman: Food insecurity on the rise (May 30, 2023)
More events 👉Bonus content for monthly supporters.
🪂Jobs and internships
Science writing jobs and internships👉Bonus content for monthly supporters.
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