✍️Science Writing News Roundup #176
Resources for journalists covering COP28 + Ed Yong announced as winner of the 2023 Royal Society Science Book Prize.
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🖇️Resources
Resources for journalists covering COP28: The 28th UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP28) will be held in Dubai, United Arab Emirates from November 30 to December 12, 2023. Here are more tools to help you tell the story.
Tip sheet: Reporting on Superfund sites and navigating the EPA website. Across the United States, thousands of abandoned factories, landfills, mines, refineries and other contaminated sites are improperly managed, posing a threat to the people living around them.
What to know about drone medication deliveries: Instead of waiting in line at the pharmacy to pick up medication, wouldn’t it be more convenient for it to arrive promptly at your home?
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🖥️Articles
What I learned from embedding as a journalist in a science institution: Here’s what Elna Schütz learned from being the proverbial penguin among historians of science, with lessons other journalists can incorporate when working with scientists.
What do audiences need from climate journalism? Newsrooms need to look beyond short-term outrage and start putting scrutiny on the causes and solutions to a dire environmental situation.
Racism, medicine and why we need to decolonise healthcare. Dr. Annabel Sowemimo is a doctor, activist and writer, working on the intersections of race and medicine. She is the founder of the community-based organization Reproductive Justice Initiative, formed to address the colonial history of sexual and reproductive health.
‘I Can’t Stay Silent’: Dyna Rochmyaningsih on Covering Indonesia’s Environmental Crisis: The Sumatra-based reporter, currently a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT, often finds herself navigating the terrain where science and politics clash.
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🎭Videos
A Journalist’s Guide to CCS Greenwashing at COP28: Tips for Covering Carbon Capture
Signature Event 2023 - Writing for Their Lives: America’s Pioneering Female Science Journalists
2023 GPSW Admissions Information Session: Hear from program staff and faculty about the MIT Graduate Program in Science Writing.
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🐞Opportunities
Call for Applications: Story Grants to Support Coverage of One Health in Asia Pacific. EJN’s Asia-Pacific project aims to increase the quality and quantity of coverage of a wide range of One Health issues. Better informed audiences will be equipped to urge policymakers to bridge silos and adopt One Health measures to curb the growing health, climate and environmental crises.
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🐜News
Ed Yong announced as winner of the 2023 Royal Society Science Book Prize. Renowned science writer, Ed Yong, has been named the winner of the 2023 Royal Society Trivedi Science Book Prize for An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us.
📆Events
The immigrant health beat: A practical and ethical guide (November 29, 2023)
Taking UFOs Seriously: Science, Pseudoscience, and Culture (November 30, 2023)
From Local to Global, How Climate Journalism Can Elevate the Health Story at the Heart of the Climate Crisis (December 1, 2023)
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🔔Jobs
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