✍️Science Writing News Roundup #212
A new freelance business works like a “dating app for fact-checking” + The Climate Blueprint: A New Resource Available for Climate Journalists.
Applications for the TON 2025 fellowship period are now open. The Open Notebook offers a paid, part-time fellowship program for early-career science journalists. During the course of this fellowship, fellows work with a mentor to plan, report, and write articles for publication at The Open Notebook and become part of the TON editorial team. The application deadline is October 31, 2024.
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🌎Opportunities
Apply for a $5000 Reporting Grant – Applications Due November 15, 2024. The Good Science Project–Johns Hopkins MA in Science Writing Fellowship aims to improve science journalism and science itself by providing $5,000 reporting grants for feature-length magazine articles on the funding and practice of science in the United States. Grants will support articles that reveal flaws in current science policy, practice, or funding and identify ways these challenges might be overcome.
The MIT Environmental Solutions Journalism Fellowship 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. Apply before October 14.
How to apply for the Oxford Climate Journalism Network: This is a unique opportunity to join a global network, and learn from peers and academics, while developing your own expertise and career in climate journalism. Applications to join the network are now open until Sunday 13 October, 23:59 (UK time). Here are eleven things their members got from the Oxford Climate Journalism Network.
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👩💻Articles
A new freelance business works like a “dating app for fact-checking.” Journalist and entrepreneur Wudan Yan launches "Factual" to match writers and publications with freelance fact-checkers to ensure accuracy.
Involving LatinX Communities in Science Journalism with Yvette Cabrera. In celebration of National Hispanic Heritage Month, the National Academies Eric and Wendy Schmidt Awards for Excellence in Science Communications asked Yvette about her experiences involving LatinX communities in her science journalism.
How I came to write a feature in Nature about the origins of plate tectonics: Michael Marshall wrote a feature for Nature about how and when plate tectonics started up on Earth. Here's a blogpost about the tangled process by which that story arose.
A Day in the Life of Ben Goldfarb: Ben Goldfarb is an environmental journalist whose writing has appeared in National Geographic, The Atlantic, Smithsonian Magazine, and many other publications.
How the Supreme Court decision to overturn the Chevron doctrine may affect health care policy. For any journalist who covers health care in the U.S., it's important to understand and continue to consider the potential consequences of striking down the 40-year-old legal doctrine.
🧭Resources
Tips to localize news about national infectious disease outbreaks. Several current outbreaks in the U.S. provide helpful case studies in making national news relevant locally. Two are food-borne illness outbreaks, another is a more obscure vector-borne tropical disease. Here are some ideas for making these stories meaningful to your audience.
The Climate Blueprint: A New Resource Available for Climate Journalists. The Climate Blueprint covers a range of 14 different topics — things like how to create better climate visuals, tracking impact, working with scientists, and how to spot myths and disinformation when covering climate solutions.
New guide on science journalism in Hungary offers practical tips: The Balkan Network of Science Journalists and the European Federation for Science Journalism present “A Tudományos Újságírás Alapjai” (The Basics of Science Journalism), a new guide in Hungarian that delves into the challenges, methodologies, and best practices of science journalism in Hungary.
📣News
Nineteen journalists awarded grants to attend ScienceWriters2024. Seven journalists working across the United States have been selected to receive CASW New Horizons Travel Fellowships to support their participation in ScienceWriters2024, taking place in Raleigh, N.C. Nov. 8-11. Each will receive up to $1,200 in travel funds, thanks to generous support from the Burroughs Wellcome Foundation.
Highlights from the 2024 McElheny Award Ceremony. On September 6, 2024 a crowd of journalists, students, and members of the MIT community gathered at the MIT Museum to celebrate local science journalism and the achievements of one team in particular: the Cicero Independiente and MuckRock collaboration that received the 2024 McElheny Award for Local and Regional Science Journalism for “The Air We Breathe,” a series investigating air quality in Cicero, IL.
🔖Videos
Pitching Business and Science Stories: Learn how to pitch your business, technology and science stories to outlets like MIT Technology Review, Salon, PCMag, Marketplace, and the Wirecutter.
Climate News that Moves the World. Join leading journalists bringing you news from the frontlines of the climate crisis. How do we tell these stories to make an impact and inspire change in our economies and the way we relate to and protect nature?
Climate Week: Solutions Journalism from Nature’s Frontline, with Mongabay. Mongabay journalists have been researching, exploring and reporting in-depth stories about climate and environmental change for a quarter of a century. Celebrating their 25th anniversary, Mongabay promotes investigative, independent journalism worldwide.
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🗓️Events
Connector Chat - The story behind award-winning stories: A conversation with Usha Lee McFarling (October 9, 2024)
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