✍️Science Writing News Roundup #169
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🌏Resources
Keep your audience informed on the scarcity of children’s COVID-19 vaccines.
Recoding life (and rewriting your stories): Behind the scenes of writing a feature story – and advice for beginning writers.
Driving under the influence of marijuana: An explainer and research roundup.
🚢Articles
Why you should cover the slow COVID-19 vaccine rollout and insurance concerns.
Climate journalists need to connect the dots between climate change and the invasion of Ukraine. Countries are feeling the links between fossil fuels and economic dependence on Russia, writes Kyrgyz journalist Baktygul Chynybaeva.
Opinion | 11 practical and responsible ways I have improved my journalism with AI: Generative artificial intelligence has plenty of issues. It’s also very useful for organizing and bolstering journalists’ work.
How Science Writing Fuels My Ph.D. “My involvement with science communication grounded my own doctoral thesis and showed me how that small additional effort can have a big positive impact on the larger efforts of my career as a scientist.” - Jameson Blount, Duke University.
Casey Parks and Washington Post Pollsters Depict Trans Life in the U.S. Amid rising anti-trans rhetoric and legislation, Washington Post social-issues reporter Casey Parks teamed up with pollsters Emily Guskin and Scott Clement to capture what it’s truly like to be trans in the U.S.
🎦Videos
Health and Science Freelancing for NY Times Well, WebMD, Science -- IIJ Webinar. This webinar on health and science freelancing is designed for independent journalists. Learn about effective storytelling, pitching science and health-related stories, and steering your freelance career. Hear directly from editors for the New York Times, WebMD and Science what they're looking for in pitches from or assignments to independent journalists.
GIJC23 - Climate: Investigating Impacts: The impacts of climate change are everywhere. But how to do in-depth reporting on the widespread human costs -- both immediate and longer-term?
Niamh Shaw: When a Journalist Becomes Part of the Story. Find out about how personalizing science and space topics can have a big impact on readers and audiences.
📣News
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📚Events
Classroom Training: How to Communicate about Climate Change Accurately and Effectively, with Dr. Adam Levy, a science journalist and climate change communicator. (October 18, 2023)
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