✍️Science Writing News Roundup #157
Turn Data Into Stories + Preparing for Crisis X + Covering science with Katherine Wu.
‘How To Fix Climate Journalism’ Essay Series: A new essay series from alumni of the Oxford Climate Journalism Network around the world offers advice on how to produce better climate coverage—wherever you are. (Image: Unsplash)
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🧵Resources
Academic journals that give journalists free access. Some journalists might not realize that many academic journals let them bypass their paywalls. The Journalist’s Resource shows you which ones and how to set up free accounts.
Using artificial intelligence in your reporting while maintaining audience trust. At Media Party Chicago, a conference exploring the intersection of artificial intelligence and journalism, attendees debated and learned about the opportunities and dangers of AI.
Turn Data Into Stories: Simon Clark makes captivating videos about the physics of the earth’s atmosphere and climate change. In his first class, he’s here to teach you how to talk to audiences about science in an engaging way.
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🧰Articles
ChatGPT gives an extra productivity boost to weaker writers. The AI program allows people with limited writing skills to create higher-quality texts — but makes little difference to proficient writers’ work quality.
Loneliness and health inequity are post-COVID-19 stories to cover, reporter says. As one way to mark the end of this point of the pandemic, Bara Vaida spoke with Fran Kritz, who reflected on what it was like to cover the pandemic over the past three years and what she thinks journalists should be covering now.
How to cover the case that could kill patients’ access to no-cost preventive services. A key provision of the Affordable Care Act is in jeopardy in the case of Braidwood Management Inc. v. Becerra in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.
Why you should be writing about diagnostic errors. Many people have a story about a missed or delayed diagnosis that affected them or someone they know. The Institute of Medicine report stated that most people are likely to experience at least one diagnostic error in their lifetime.
Journalist Becomes Source: What to Do When the Press Comes Calling. Giuliana Viglione considers what happens when the script gets flipped and the journalist becomes the interviewee. “Talking to the press about your work is a great way to expand the reach of an important story,” Giuliana writes.
Preparing for Crisis X: Can newsrooms and the scientific community overcome sceptical publics? When divided society questions and distrusts journalistic and scientific methods, can next-level journalism promote and enhance credibility on future issues of concern?
💻Videos
Covering science with Katherine Wu: Katherine joins TWiV to discuss her career in science writing, from not liking science at all, to a PhD in microbiology and immunology, and writing for Nova, the NY Times, and The Atlantic, and how the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted her craft.
Press Briefing: The Ever-Shifting Landscape Of Climate Misinformation. Now more than ever, climate journalists need to be aware of coordinated efforts to misinform the public on climate change. Not only is it journalists’ job to help the public sort fact from fiction but, also, no journalist wants to find themselves an unwitting accomplice to a disinformation campaign.
Impacting technology through quality science journalism. Good science journalism is not just about informing people of the latest scientific or technological advances; it’s about interrogating the subject on behalf of the audience and asking difficult questions that may challenge the research conclusions.
Preparing for future pandemics: Learning from Covid-19. Taking stock of what went wrong in the US response to the Covid-19 pandemic can help the nation better prepare for the next global health emergency.
SciComm Summer #16: Sam Jones on Charting Your Own. Sam Jones has written about science for The Washington Post, New York Times, Scientific American, and more. She’s also the current president of the D.C. Science Writers Association.
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