✍️Science Writing News Roundup #187
How Sora, OpenAI’s new text-to-video tool, could harm journalism and society + Covering Long Covid: Beyond ‘Mystery’ and Misunderstanding
Ocean Reporting Toolkit: Do you want to report on the ocean but don’t know where to start? From climate impacts, to fisheries, deep-sea mining and pollution, there are many sources of stories and data. Photo by Robert Bye on Unsplash.
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🌎Opportunities
The MIT Environmental Solutions Journalism Fellowship 2024 supports freelance and staff journalists associated with U.S. local/regional newsrooms in developing a high-impact news project that reports on how climate change and/or the shift to a low-carbon economy relates to local communities and regions, in a way that centers local messengers, values, and priorities.
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🔭Articles
How Sora, OpenAI’s new text-to-video tool, could harm journalism and society: If it’s as good as the demos make it look, we need to be ready for an onslaught of fake video, two Poynter AI experts warn.
Celina Zhao ’24 shares her journey in science journalism: Zhao explains navigating her place at MIT and finding her passion for science journalism and communication.
Why science communication needs more storytelling: Through an analysis of the controversies of climate change, evolution, vaccination, and COVID-19, Emma Frances Bloomfield explores how we can make science’s stories more personal and engaging without sacrificing scientific accuracy.
Behind the Story: Grantee Clare Fieseler on Deep-Sea Mining: While reporting on fisheries for the Charleston, South Carolina-based newspaper The Post and Courier, Pulitzer Center grantee Clare Fieseler came across a small piece of information hidden in a press release: Scientists were returning to the site of the world’s first attempt to mine the deep sea.
Sensing Climate Change with Inayat Singh: The Knight Science Journalism Fellow considers the potential for remote sensing. We have the technology, we can get the data, what are we going to do with it?
A Day in the Life of Betsy Ladyzhets: Betsy Ladyzhets is a science, health, and data journalist and writer focused on COVID-19 and the future of public health. She’s the co-editor of The Sick Times, a new nonprofit publication chronicling the long-COVID crisis.
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🧰Resources
Reporting on psychedelics research or legislation? Proceed with caution. Despite the hype, optimism and legislation involving the therapeutic potential of psychedelics, researchers warn that there's much we don't know. This research roundup looks at some of the knowns and unknowns of psilocybin, MDMA and other hallucinogens.
📗News
Sigma Awards Names Nine Pulitzer Center Projects As Finalists. The Sigma Awards celebrates the best data journalism from around the world. This year, it received 591 data journalism entries from 322 organizations in 78 countries.
📼Videos
Covering reproductive health: A closer look at issues affecting women of color
Using the CDC’s Environmental Justice and Social Vulnerability data in your reporting
📅Events
Covering Long Covid: Beyond ‘Mystery’ and Misunderstanding (March 6, 2024)
The IIJ 2024 Freelance Journalism Conference (February 29 - March 1, 2024)
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BrainFacts Staff Writer/Editor, Specialist at Society for Neuroscience (Washington, DC)
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