✍️Science Writing News Roundup #179
A Book Publishing Primer for Science Writers + Connector Chat: Best practices for pitching freelance stories.
EurekAlert! journalism fellowship returns with 2 early-career Latin American winners: The 2023 EurekAlert! Fellowships for International Science Reporters have been awarded to Roberto González, a Mexican freelance science journalist, and Malena Stariolo, a Brazilian science reporter for Jornal de Unesp. (Photo credit: Roberto Gonzalez/Tayná Gonçalves).
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🍫Resources
A Book Publishing Primer for Science Writers: Many science writers dream of writing a book someday, but questions abound for prospective authors: Is my book idea any good? Do I need an agent? How do I write a book proposal? Thankfully, you can draw on the experiences of other science writers who have successfully navigated the morass of publishing, as well as the expertise of seasoned agents and editors.
Want To Protect Your Sources? It Helps to Know the Law. For journalists, understanding how to protect your confidential sources encourages others to come forward, supporting public service journalism and a more informed public.
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⛷️Opportunities
SEJ Conference Travel Diversity Fellowships Application: The Society of Environmental Journalists and The Uproot Project are partnering to offer diversity fellowships (worth up to $2800) to support journalists’ attendance at #SEJ2024 in Philadelphia.
Graduate & Undergraduate Students: Apply to the NASW Mentoring Program at AAAS 2024. Are you a graduate or undergraduate student looking for guidance on how to establish a career in science writing? Are you curious about how senior science writers do their jobs? Find out through the NASW Mentoring Program, which will pair graduate and undergraduate students with established science writers during the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) annual meeting, Feb. 15-17 in Denver, Colorado.
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🌍Articles
Science journalism is no longer safe hiding in the hedge fund. Science desks are needed more than ever, but traditional revenue models are destroying them.
Science journalism has its Defector moment: “We need science journalists now more than ever, but with alarming frequency, legacy and digital-first publications alike are showing that they can't provide these journalists with stability. So who will?”
Investigative Reporter Chikezie Omeje, on the Future of What It Means to Be Human: The Knight Science Journalism Fellow sees a need for good reporting as technologies like AI and synthetic biology race ahead with little regulation.
2023 in Review: Knight Center expands, leads pioneering AI training for thousands of journalists and much more. With the mainstreaming of artificial intelligence (AI) and hype over generative AI programs like ChatGPT making headlines in 2023, the Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas helped lead the push to train journalists on what AI is and how it can best be used in newsrooms.
At science writers national conference, panelists agree answers to sightings in the skies are grounded in science. How can journalists best cover research on the centuries-old, frequently controversial sightings of the mysterious icons in the skies once known as unidentified flying objects (UFOs) — nowadays more appropriately called unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAPs)?
Opinion: Why Are So Few People Investigating Covid’s Origins? China may be blocking access to ground zero, but there is evidence to uncover elsewhere — if only more people would try.
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📽️Videos
Looking ahead: New sources of energy to transform journalism / Jennifer Preston and Jonathan Heawood
Getting a grant or fellowship to support your narrative journalism project | AHCJ Webinar
Sheeva Azma talks to Amy Weldon, a writer and editor at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
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🏞️Events
Connector Chat: Best practices for pitching freelance stories (January 10, 2023)
The IIJ 2024 Freelance Journalism Conference (February 29 - March 1, 2024)
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⌨️Jobs and internships
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