✍️Science Writing News Roundup #186
How to steer an interview so you get what you need + How AI deepfakes threaten the 2024 elections.
Ten students receive NASW travel funding to explore science writing careers at 2024 AAAS Annual Meeting. Congratulations to the 2024 travel fellowship recipients attending the 2024 AAAS Annual Meeting:
Emily Engelbart, The University of Texas at Austin
Grace Huckins, Stanford University
Jasmine Pathan, City University of New York
Jocelyn Heimsoth, University of Missouri-Columbia
John Lin, Harvard College
Krishnakoli Adhikary, The Graduate Center, City University of New York and CSI CUNY
Nora Bradford, University of California, Irvine
Olivia Maule, University of Florida
Simar Bajaj, Harvard University
Soumilee Chaudhuri, Indiana University School of Medicine
Image credit: NASW.
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🚀Opportunities
FRONTIERS, an initiative funded by the European Research Council, invites applications from science journalists worldwide for immersive residencies at European research institutions. These residencies, spanning 3 to 5 months, offer unparalleled opportunities to delve into frontier research across diverse disciplines, including social sciences and humanities.
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🌏Articles
How to steer an interview so you get what you need. Conducting interviews that provide everything you need for an article, eliciting details from experts for color and juicy quotes, and building rapport with sources are essential skills for any journalist. By mastering the nuts and bolts of interviewing, you can limit the number of follow-up questions you have to ask in an email or second call and set yourself up to write engaging, fully fleshed out stories.
How AI deepfakes threaten the 2024 elections. We don’t yet know the full impact of artificial intelligence-generated deepfake videos on misinforming the electorate. And it may be the narrative around them -- rather than the deepfakes themselves -- that most undermines election integrity.
When Genetics and the Law Collide: An Interview With Nicky Phillips. The Knight Science Journalism Fellow reflects on her reporting of a murder mystery solved, in part, by science.
New IPI report reveals safety crisis faced by climate and environmental journalists. Findings underscore need for urgent action to promote journalist safety and protect independent coverage of environmental stories.
📻Resources
Covering Firearm Violence: How journalists can reframe their reporting. While much news coverage of firearm violence is reported through the lens of crime and politics, experts say this framing overemphasizes mass shootings and fails communities seeking solutions to gun violence.
How to plan for emergency communications before the hurricane season: A radio emergency exercise for reporters to check-in with their managers in the aftermath of a natural disaster.
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🧭Videos
Oxford Chemistry students talk to BBC Science Editor Rebecca Morelle.
AAAS Annual Meeting 2024 Plenary Panel: Global Warming and Health.
AAAS Annual Meeting Sci-Mic Chat: Quinnehtukqut McLamore and Hause Lin on Laundering Misinformation
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🎯Events
AppSciComm Storytelling Series: How to talk to the public about healthcare conspiracy thinking (February 28, 2024)
The IIJ 2024 Freelance Journalism Conference (February 29 - March 1, 2024)
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🖱️Jobs
Senior Science Writer at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (Urbana, IL)
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