✍️Science Writing News Roundup #211
Science Reporting Quick Tips + Navigating the Newest Social Media Era.
Science Reporting Quick Tips: The Open Notebook and SciLine have teamed up to distill key science reporting skills into a series of quick-hit resources for journalists with deadlines to meet. The first four tip sheets in this series are available now: 1) Finding Expert Scientific Sources, 2) Finding and Including Diverse Sources, 3) Making Sense of Scientific Studies, and 4) Stats Terms for Covering Science.
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🗺️Articles
Roundtable: Navigating the Newest Social Media Era. Read on to learn how eight science journalists and communicators think about social media, what platforms they favor, and how they reach their audiences elsewhere.
What ‘Minari’ taught me about Asian American science journalism: “In the throes of leading The Xylom, the movie affirmed to me the importance of having ownership over how Asian Americans are portrayed and what our news media landscape looks like,” writes Alex Ip, founder and editor-in-chief of The Xylom.
A Day in the Life of Tom Whipple, Science Editor at The Times: Tom has been covering science at The Times since 2012, contributing news, features, reviews, and commentary and regularly appearing on Times Radio. His career has taken him from the tunnels below CERN to the top of Mont Blanc to sitting across some of the brightest minds in science.
How a freelancer’s story instincts landed a piece in The New York Times: Erika Hayasaki found characters, scenes and themes in the aftermath of the Maui wildfires that she couldn't set aside despite multiple rejections.
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🧵Resources
Introducing Long COVID Essentials, a new resource series. This series of resource sheets provides foundational information about navigating Long COVID. Whether you’re newly experiencing confusing symptoms, have had this disease for years, or are helping others in your community, these sheets will direct you to information and resources to support you along the way.
Reporting on the impact of climate change on indoor air quality: As a health care reporter, it is important to help your readers understand indoor air pollutants, assess and measure their risks and connect how some negative health outcomes are made worse by a changing climate.
The “Art of Science Writing,” is an intermediate-level course designed to elevate your science communication skills and expand your writing repertoire across various platforms. Over the span of four weeks, you will delve into advanced interviewing techniques, learn to craft compelling narratives for different platforms, and master the art of brand journalism.
Advice on Finding Writing Ideas: Mostly for non-fiction authors.
🖼️Opportunities
The Association of Science Communicators is now accepting submissions for Science Talk ’25! They want to hear your ideas for talks, workshops, and panels—both for the virtual conference beginning March 26 and for the in-person event on April 3-4 in Raleigh, North Carolina.
Apply now for the free workshop "Climate, Sustainability, and Health: Promoting Science Writing and Policy for Journalists in the Arab World" at Khalifa University, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (in person)
Call for applications: Indigenous voices fellowship. Fellows will be supported to develop stories and to attend the COP30 climate conference in Brazil.
Seed Grants to Support Climate and Environmental Journalism: EJN is offering media grants to immigrant, Black, Indigenous and people of color-serving newsrooms and media collectives in the United States and Canada to support innovative, investigative and/or enterprise reporting projects on environmental or climate change issues that call attention to topics, groups and/or locations lacking representation in mainstream media.
Investigative Story Grant and Training Program for Indigenous and Tribal Journalists: EJN is offering reporting grants to Indigenous and tribal journalists globally to support the production of investigative, innovative and/or enterprise reporting on environmental and climate issues.
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🪴News
AGU honors journalists Nadia Drake and Zack Savitsky for excellence in science journalism. Nadia Drake, a freelance journalist, is honored with the 2023 Walter Sullivan Award for Excellence in Science Writing – Features for her feature story in National Geographic on using environments on Earth as analogs for extraterrestrial landscapes where life might be found. Zack Savitsky, also a freelance journalist, is honored with the 2023 David Perlman Award for Excellence in Science Writing – News for his Science news story documenting how hand magnets can inadvertently destroy billion-year-old data.
🎤Videos
Climate on the Ballot Summit: As history’s top carbon polluter and biggest economy, the US has always wielded unmatched influence over humanity’s climate future. That makes the November 5 elections a huge climate story that journalists everywhere need to help audiences understand.
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🔍Events
Pitching Business and Science Stories (September 27, 2024)
Building Bridges: Success stories in closing the gap in public health and care systems (September 27, 2024)
Writing for Transformation Course (October 6, 2024)
ScienceWriters (Oct. 17-18, Nov. 8-11, 2024)
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📌Jobs
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