✍️Science Writing News Roundup #180
The Future of Climate Journalism + Science Journalism Is Shrinking–Along with Public Trust in Science.
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✏️Articles
The Future of Climate Journalism: Leading journalists from around the world took part in an unprecedented conversation about transforming climate coverage.
How to center resilience and adaptation in climate change coverage: ICFJ Community Manager Paul Adepoju spoke with David Kerkhofs, climate adaptation coordinator at Humana People to People, about how journalists can best cover the climate crisis and show readers how communities are affected by it.
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🌿Videos and Podcasts
Science Journalism Is Shrinking–Along With Public Trust In Science. Ira Flatow talks about the current state of science journalism with Deborah Blum, science journalist, author, publisher of Undark magazine, and director of the Knight Science Journalism Program at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Sabrina Imbler, author and science reporter for Defector.
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📣Opportunities
The Pulitzer Prizes in Journalism: Each spring, Columbia University awards Pulitzer Prizes in 15 journalism categories. The winners are chosen by the Pulitzer Prize Board, which seeks to recognize journalistic excellence in eligible U.S. news organizations. The Journalism entry site has reopened for the 2024 cycle. It will close at 11:59 p.m. Pacific time on January 25, 2024.
Inverse editors welcome pitches from people without a lot of experience and are happy to develop ideas with new freelancers. Email senior science editor Claire Maldarelli with “Inverse Science Freelance Story Pitch” as the subject line.
ABSW Awards 2024: Open to entry. There are 13 categories open to entry in 2024. Find out more and make your entry.
Call for Applications: Story Grant and Training Program for Indigenous Environmental Journalists 2024. EJN is offering reporting grants to Indigenous journalists to support the production of in-depth environmental stories that call attention to climate justice, biodiversity, sustainable ecosystems, Indigenous sovereignty and leadership, and other issues related to the rights and well-being of Indigenous peoples and communities.
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📚Events
Covering long COVID, the hidden epidemic (January 10, 2023). Up to one in seven people in the U.S. have had long COVID, according to one of the most recent estimates. But it's still getting relatively little coverage, not nearly capturing the scale of this debilitating condition for which no approved treatments exist. In this webinar, you'll hear from a rehabilitation physician who specializes in treating people with long COVID and a journalist who has been living with the condition. You'll learn what you need to know about long COVID, best practices in covering it, and the importance of speaking with people who are dealing with it.
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🧭Jobs
Media and Communications Officer at The European Geosciences Union (EGU) (Munich, Germany). Responsibilities include managing press releases, coordinating press participation and the press centre at the EGU General Assembly, and writing and managing the EGU blogs.
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