✍️Science Writing News Roundup #183
The Ocean and Climate: What Makes Good Storytelling? + A New Fellowship for Advancing Science Journalism in Africa and the Middle East.
Announcing New Fellowship for Advancing Science Journalism in Africa and the Middle East: The fellowship, developed through a generous gift from the global publishing company, Springer Nature, was created in honor of the pioneering Egyptian science journalist, Mohammed Yahia, who died last year at the age of 41. (Image via Unsplash)
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🚀Articles
Research: 3 in 4 US adults can discern real political news headlines from fake ones. Has the death of truth been greatly exaggerated? New research suggests people in the U.S. are, overall, good at identifying true political news headlines from fake ones — but there are some stark socioeconomic differences.
RIP Jon Franklin: Inspirational writer, teacher and advocate of true stories. “Jon Franklin fused the modern discipline of journalism with the ancient magic of storytelling to create a new literary genre capable of bridging the gap between the sciences and the humanities that has long divided mainstream culture,” said Seattle writer John Higgins.
Misinformation, Trust, and Personality in Journalism: A Conversation with Kai Kupferschmidt. The Knight Science Journalism Fellow turns his focus from infectious disease to a different kind of viral spread: today's media landscape as a digital breeding ground for misinformation.
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🧭Opportunities
Applications accepted for SHERF program for early-career journalists: US-based journalists interested in building careers reporting on science, health and the environment are invited to apply for cross-cutting fellowships designed to provide training, networking, mentoring, new sources and story ideas, while allowing them to continue their paid work.
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🧰News
Exclusive: CUNY journalism program goes tuition-free. It will be the first journalism graduate school to offer a tuition-free program — a move intended to help widen opportunities for journalists from more diverse backgrounds.
Award shines a spotlight on local science journalism. The Knight Science Journalism Program’s Victor K. McElheny Award honors outstanding local and regional journalists’ reporting on science, public health, tech, and the environment.
🖥️Videos and Podcasts
Cheerleaders, guides, or watchdogs? The importance of critical science journalism
HITS Colloquium: Meik Bittkowski on augmenting science journalism
What Should Global Climate Justice Mean? | A panel featuring Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò and Farhana Sultana
Future Of Scientific Journalism with Holden Thorp, Editor-in-Chief of the Science family of journals
🌍Events
Arab Forum of Science Media and Communication (February 5-6, 2024)
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📻Jobs and internships
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