✍️Science Writing News Roundup #167
Learning to explain well + How to build a healthy media diet + AI and journalism: What's next?
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🐕🦺Resources
How to build a healthy media diet: Staying on top of the news makes our own stories timelier; it can inspire new and interesting angles and provide pegs for ideas that have been lying dormant for months, writes Katherine J. Wu.
AI and journalism: What's next? Expert David Caswell on why generative AI may transform the news ecosystem and how journalists and news companies should adapt.
To cover the aftermath of extreme disasters, journalists must start covering what we cannot rebuild. Journalists need to help communities truly adapt to change, says Rob Chaney, managing editor of the Missoulian in the U.S.
⏱️Articles
Reviving expertise that ‘once existed at many news outlets’. Stacy Feldman spoke with Beth Daley, the executive editor of The Conversation US, a nonprofit organization at the forefront of reimagining the role of non-journalists — particularly academics — in journalism.
Understanding the bigger public health debate on COVID-19 booster vaccines. When covering public health policy decision-making, it’s not uncommon for experts to agree on the big picture but disagree on the details — how to get there.
How a pioneering mixed-gender newsroom covered the A-bomb. Modern tech journalism would likely look far differently today, if not for the efforts of Dorothy Vaughan, Katherine Johnson and a host of other trailblazing female reporters who staffed the Science Service throughout the publication's history.
Writing Science for Kids: Fun With Oceans & Seas, a new book by Emily Greenhalgh, takes an engaging approach to marine biology.
🏠Opportunities
Applications to join the The Oxford Climate Journalism Network (OCJN) are now open. The Oxford Climate Journalism Network (OCJN) is a program that supports a global community of reporters and editors across beats and platforms to improve the quality, understanding and impact of climate coverage around the world. Any person in the newsroom, from any desk, can join the network.
Calls for pitches to write about engineering, biodiversity, and more + Courses, awards, grants and fellowships for writers 👉Bonus content for monthly supporters.
🎨Videos
Climate Changes Everything: Creating a Blueprint for Media Transformation - Day 1
Climate Changes Everything: Creating a Blueprint for Media Transformation - Day 2
Learning to explain well, with BBC News presenter Ros Atkins (part two): How to be better at pitching stories and projects, asking audiences to trust you, and communicating with your colleagues.
Reporting on Reproductive Health, Part 3: Covering reproductive rights in Ireland.
Research Report Launch: How Journalists Find, Verify and Use Climate Information in East Africa.
🔭News
Announcing the 2023 NASW Science in Society Journalism Award winners: This year, NASW is awarding prizes in six categories: Books, Science Reporting, Science Features, Longform Narratives, Series, and Commentary.
Announcing the 2023 NASW Excellence in Institutional Writing Award winners. The 2023 NASW Awards will be presented on Saturday, Oct. 7 in Boulder, Colorado as part of the ScienceWriters2023 national conference.
Science News Media Group is unionizing with News Guild: The staff of Science News Media Group, which includes Science News and Science News Explores, announced Tuesday that they have decided to unionize.
A new initiative to develop and internationalize science journalism education. A collaborative project between UWE Bristol, the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Pune, Nature India, Science Journalists Association of India and Association of British Science Writers is bringing together academia and industry to build science communication curricula that meet industry needs.
📆Events
The New Wave of COVID: A Conversation with Dr. Ashish Jha (September 28, 2023)
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🌍Jobs
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