✍️Science Writing News Roundup #191
The Sharon Begley Science Reporting Fellowship + Nature is committed to diversifying its journalistic sources.
Interview: Rebecca Boyle Finds the Narrative Arc of the Moon. Rebecca Boyle spent years pondering the moon’s impact on Earth and humanity, then wrote a book that centers the moon as a character. Katharine Gammon interviewed her about how she pictures the moon, how she crafted her narrative, and how she found one word to represent each chapter of her book. Image: Rebecca Boyle. Portrait by Random House (source: TON)
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🖨️Articles
Nature is committed to diversifying its journalistic sources: The latest data are in on the diversity of people interviewed for the journal’s News, Features and Careers articles, and audio and video content.
How To Tell a Compelling Science Story at CUGH 2024: The Pulitzer Center and Global Health Now convened a communications workshop panel and film festival at the 15th Annual Consortium of Universities for Global Health (CUGH) Conference in Los Angeles.
Why journalists should stop overlooking tuberculosis coverage. In the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, an infectious disease of epidemic proportions killed 1.5 million people across the world — but it wasn’t COVID. It was tuberculosis.
The Washington Post’s first AI strategy editor talks LLMs in the newsroom. As some newsroom roles go the way of the dinosaurs, brand new jobs are being born. This interview is part of an occasional series of Q&As with people who are the first to hold their title in their newsroom. Phoebe Connelly is The Washington Post’s first-ever senior editor for AI strategy and innovation.
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📜News
Knight Science Journalism Program Launches HBCU Science Journalism Fellowship: The fellowship will incubate early-career science journalists, providing them with a year of skill-building freelance experience and dedicated mentorship.
📌Opportunities
The Sharon Begley Science Reporting Fellowship: CASW will select the third winner of the Sharon Begley Science Reporting Award in 2024. The award, to be given annually, will recognize and support reporting and writing that embodies the high standards exemplified by Sharon Begley (1956–2021), a science journalist of unflinching dedication, skill, moral clarity, and commitment to mentoring. The Sharon Begley Award comprises a career prize, recognizing the accomplishments of a mid-career science journalist, and a grant of at least $20,000 to enable the winner to undertake a significant reporting project.
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🌏Videos and Podcasts
Ask Me Anything: Pulitzer Center Environmental Unit: Do you want to pitch an environmental story to the Pulitzer Center? Are you interested in a reporting grant or in becoming a fellow of the Rainforest Investigations Network (RIN) or the Ocean Reporting Network (ORN)?
The Journalism Salute with Shi En Kim PhD, Science writer, Co-Founder: Sequencer. Kim has written for many publications including Scientific American and National Geographic. She often covers new research and emerging trends in sciences, tech, the environment, and health and medicine.
Communicating the Climate Crisis in Word and Image. A conversation with Pulitzer Prize-winning author and New Yorker writer Elizabeth Kolbert and acclaimed illustrator Wesley Allsbrook, who have collaborated on Kolbert's new collection of climate change reporting.
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🖼️Events
Media briefing: Climate change and agriculture: air, water, and soil (April 9, 2024)
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