✍️Science Writing News Roundup #194
How to spot AI disinformation? + The new nuclear landscape + How to effectively cover climate change and reach an avoidant audience.
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👩🏾💻Videos and Podcasts
Connector Chat: Science journalism and communication in the misinformation era
The new nuclear landscape: reporting on nuclear weapons and security at the dawn of a new arms race
How to effectively cover climate change and reach an avoidant audience
Leveraging AI to boost efficiency and innovation in the news
Communicating Algorithmic Science to the Public | Theoretically Speaking
Mis- and disinformation about health is killing us. What should journalists be doing about it?
Interview with Brian Lin from EurekAlert! - Let's Talk SciComm
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👨🏼⚕️Opportunities
Apply to Join the Ocean Reporting Network (ORN): The network will establish a collaborative ecosystem of journalists around the world. Together, they will uncover the harmful and illegal practices of the fishing and extractive industries, systemic threats to marine biodiversity and coastal communities, and the supply chains facilitating global demand for the ocean’s increasingly dwindling resources.
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👩🏫Articles
A Day in the Life of Amy Nordrum: Amy Nordrum is an executive editor at MIT Technology Review based in Boston, Massachusetts. She oversees the publication’s annual lists of 10 Breakthrough Technologies, Innovators Under 35, and 15 Climate Tech Companies to Watch.
Why context and risk assessment are vital in disease outbreak coverage: Journalists must accurately describe risk in reporting on avian influenza, measles, dengue, and meningococcal disease outbreaks.
Is organic farming an environmental health solution? This tip sheet explores the environmental and health implications around organic farming so reporters can accurately frame the practice’s impact.
If you want people to trust your reporting, attribute your sources. Attribution simply means revealing where you got the facts in your story. It could be a person you interviewed, a public institution or commercial enterprise putting out a statement, a published report or study, or another news outlet with an exclusive report.
Should researchers use AI to write papers? Group aims for community-driven standards. Tools such as ChatGPT may be used for 1% to 5% of manuscripts, recent estimates suggest.
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👩🏿🔬News
The Academy of American Poets Announces the Winners of the 2024 Treehouse Climate Action Poem Prize. The winners, Nickole Brown, Sarah McCartt-Jackson, and Dante Di Stefano, were selected by poet and naturalist Elizabeth Bradfield and climate scientist Kate Marvel, PhD. This annual prize, which honors exceptional poems that help readers recognize the gravity of the vulnerable state of our environment, was launched in 2019 with generous support from Treehouse Investments, LLC.
🖥️Events
AppSciComm Storytelling Series: How to Craft an Engaging Nature Story (April 24, 2024)
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🔭Jobs
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