✍️Science Writing News Roundup #188
Opinion | The risk of nuclear conflict is rising + Reporting extreme weather + Health Storytelling Author Q&A.
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🖼️Articles
Opinion | The risk of nuclear conflict is rising. Nuclear nations are building up their arsenals, speeding toward the next arms race. Is anyone paying attention?
Four biases that leave under-represented groups out of GenAI-assisted journalism. If generative AI is left unchecked, the news industry of tomorrow will lack (even more so) the perspectives of women, ethnic minorities and people from the global south.
Jonathan Franzen on How to Write About Nature, with a Side of Rachel Carson and Alice in Wonderland.
Sofia Moutinho Accompanies an Indigenous Community and Scientists into the Amazon. In 2016, 16 tons of fish died on the Xingu River in the Brazilian Amazon due to massive water fluctuations caused by a dam owned by the Norte Energia company. Journalist Sofia Moutinho traveled into the rainforest with scientists and Juruna community members to expose environmental damage.
Science magazine reporter Jon Cohen digs deep into history of coronaviruses. Jon Cohen, a staff writer at Science magazine, had been interested in universal flu vaccines before the pandemic began. So, when SARS-CoV-2 came along, he naturally became interested in universal coronavirus vaccines.
Ahmed Al-Attar: Pioneer of Environmental Journalism in the MENA Region Leaves Us. “Ahmed Al-Attar was not just a prominent journalist in the Arab World but a true pioneer in environmental media and open-source investigations,” writes Nouha Belaid, Founder of Science Journalists in MENA.
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Reporting extreme weather – a case study of the 2022 Indian heatwave. A new report by a team of researchers examined hundreds of articles to find how the Indian media covered this extreme weather event.
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📌News
UNESCO and IFJ launch survey to assess the safety of environmental journalists: Some of the goals of the study are to map the breadth of the problem internationally, as well as to assess the efficacy of existing attempts to address the crisis.
Twelve journalists have been selected for the 2024 National Science-Health-Environment Reporting Fellowships (SHERF) program, now in its third year.
Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Science Journalism International Survey. This study is focusing on digital skills (including AI) and this survey specifically asks about your hopes, fears about, and current use of, AI tools.
🎬Videos
Covering Long Covid: Beyond ‘Mystery’ and Misunderstanding. A conversation with journalist Betsy Ladyzhets and Long Covid clinician Dr. Monica Verduzco-Gutierrez.
Health Storytelling with Theresa MacPhail, PhD, medical anthropologist, Professor Stevens Institute of Technology, and author of ALLERGIC: Our Irritated Bodies in a Changing World.
In Science We Trust? There’s a growing worldwide trend of distrust in science and medicine—a trend thrown into sharp relief by the Covid-19 pandemic and vaccination campaigns. How did we get here and what can we do about it?
Science in motion: How journalists approach using preprints.
Parsing the deadly problem of low vaccination rates in nursing homes.
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