✍️Science Writing News Roundup #163
Explaining complicated ideas, processes with digestible and impactful graphics + 10 climate change myths debunked.
Explaining complicated ideas, processes with digestible and impactful graphics. Now a data visualization editor at Axios, Kavya Beheraj often transforms complicated and comprehensive stories into digestible and impactful graphics. Examples of her work include a recent visual explainer of how a nuclear bomb works for Axios or the 3D interactive model to map the surface features of Venus. (Image: Pixabay)
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10 climate change myths debunked: Climate misinformation is everywhere. This guide equips journalists to recognize and refute key myths and report the truth.
Corporal punishment in schools: Research and reporting tips to guide your coverage. Two scholars offer guidance on covering school corporal punishment, which can result in serious injuries and has, for years, been used disproportionately on Black students and children with disabilities.
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The female journalist who helped create the field of science reporting: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette on Jane Stafford, Gender in Journalism, and the Pioneering Science Service Organization.
Alumni notes: Two views on AI’s future, how to argue, and more. A recurring roundup of news about former KSJ Fellows, featuring Federico Kukso's compendium of what the fellows have been writing.
In her new book, physician-journalist reframes what’s wrong with U.S. health care. It’s a cliché to say that American health care is broken. Ilana Yurkiewicz, M.D., a Stanford University oncologist and internal medicine physician, says journalists should be more specific. The central problem, she argues, is that health care is fragmented.
To report fully on climate change, journalists need to integrate Indigenous knowledge into their coverage. “Two-Eyed Seeing” is crucial to showing what’s really happening in a warming climate, says Jennifer Thornhill Verma, a freelance journalist in Canada.
📜News
Maryn McKenna awarded 2023 Victor Cohn Prize. Maryn McKenna, senior writer at WIRED and a widely published journalist and author specializing in public health, global health, and food policy, has been selected to receive the 2023 Victor Cohn Prize for Excellence in Medical Science Reporting.
Nobel laureate launches the Trust in Research Undertaken in Science and Technology Scholarly Network at Waterloo. The spread of disinformation and misinformation — often fuelled by skepticism — is on the rise. Combating this trend and understanding why some people deny, doubt or resist scientific findings and explanations is crucial to addressing the complex and existential issues impacting our societies.
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