✍️Science Writing News Roundup #170
Applications for The Open Notebook 2024 fellowship period are open + Tipsheet: Pursuing investigative stories as a science writer.
When 650 science writers show up, there’s no shortage of curiosity. A tour at Sanitas Brewing, a social hour at a planetarium and a geology hike at Chautauqua Park were among the dozens of tours, panel discussions and lectures that took place Oct. 6–10 at SciWriters 2023. Image by Logan Moreno Gutierrez (Unsplash): Chautauqua, Boulder, CO.
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🧰Resources
What to expect from The Art of Freelance: If you want to become a freelance science writer, Priya Joi will show you how you can turn your side hustle into a full-time job.
Elon Musk took the headlines away from Twitter — but you can bring them back with this one weird trick. This browser extension can help you undo one piece of the misinformation-related damage Musk has done to the newsiest of social platforms.
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✏️Articles
People’s (mis)trust of doctors can help us understand their (mis)trust of journalists. People were often clear about distinguishing between the healthcare system, which they tended to describe with disdain, and their individual doctor. There was no equivalent distinction made in journalism.
A Day in the Life of Aneri Pattani: Aneri Pattani is a senior correspondent at KFF Health News, a national nonprofit outlet dedicated to reporting on U.S. health care and health policy.
To cover climate change well, journalists must be prepared to identify what misinformation looks like. Climate denial is much less common. But climate “delay” can take many forms, argues Gerhard Maier at ORF.
🎧Videos
The Job of a Science Journalist: Darren Incorvaia, a freelance science journalist, joins Logan Roscoe to talk about the importance of science journalism and how we can attempt to improve it.
Storming the Lab: Understanding the Revolution in Patient-led Health Care. A conversation for journalists, health care providers, and everyone else, featuring Amy Dockser Marcus, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of We the Scientists: How a Daring Team of Parents and Doctors Forged a New Path for Medicine, and Elaine Schattner, author of From Whispers to Shouts: The Ways We Talk About Cancer.
📆Events
Science Journalism Forum (October 23-26, 2023)
2023 AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Award lecture by Maryn McKenna (October 24, 2023)
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