✍️Science Writing News Roundup #215
National Academies Announce 2024 Recipients of Eric and Wendy Schmidt Awards for Excellence in Science Communications.
National Academies Announce 2024 Recipients of Eric and Wendy Schmidt Awards for Excellence in Science Communications. These prestigious awards recognize science journalists, research scientists, and science communicators who have developed creative, original work to communicate issues and advances in science, engineering, and medicine to the general public. (Image via National Academies)
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👏News
The European Geosciences Union (EGU) has announced the three recipients of its prestigious 2024 Science Journalism Fellowship. Freelance journalists Daniela De Lorenzo, Tim Kalvelage, and Laura Carrau will each receive funding for field reporting projects that explore climate change, biodiversity, and environmental science.
Winner of Royal Society Trivedi science book prize assesses whether humans really could colonise Mars. Kelly and Zach Weinersmith’s book overturns Elon Musk’s claim that we could live on the red planet within years while stressing the good reasons to pursue space settlement.
Announcing the five winners of the 2024 Climate Journalism Award: For the second edition of the Climate Journalism Award, the European Journalism Centre has received 197 eligible applications from 24 countries across Europe.
Mongabay announces the second cohort of the Mongabay Africa Environmental Reporting Fellowship Program in French, welcoming six distinguished early-career journalists: Annela Faustine Niamolo, Esther Senpa Blaksemdi, Géraud Wilfried Obangome, Rimteta Ngarndinon, Vivace Mambouana, and Yanne Mbiyavanga.
🌏Articles
Better Communicating for the Climate. Jourpardy is a fun — and hopefully eye-opening — live game show centered around how journalists can communicate in ways that help inspire cooperation rather than division and foster a sense of agency rather than powerlessness.
Gems of wisdom for early-career science writers at UKCSJ24: Among important and engaging conversations on the state of the industry, panellists at UKCSJ24 offered some gems of advice for early-career writers. Here are the key takeaway points to help you take advantage of the conference.
STAT’s “Denied by AI” series a model of solid investigative journalism. Karen Blum and Joseph Burns write about the series and the flaws it exposed, particularly how the algorithm’s care denials yielded profits for insurers, while the company authorized sending home patients who could barely care for themselves.
Effective editing: Get on the phone to talk through ideas and problems. After a decade of editing, The Atlantic's Family Editor Julie Beck is going to apply her experience to full-time writing of her own stories.
What you don’t know can hurt: 3 facts about updated COVID-19 vaccines for journalists to share. Poynter has partnered with the Risk Less. Do More. campaign to host a webinar, articles to better inform journalists.
Verifying climate claims: In this course, you'll learn how to verify content and claims about climate change, see what content is not verifiable, identify some types of misinformation, and more.
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👩🏫Opportunities
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.
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🧬Videos & Podcasts
The story behind award-winning stories: A conversation with Usha Lee McFarling
Communicating science to a skeptical public: “Your Local Epidemiologist” Katelyn Jetelina
Biotech journalism & scaling new heights for a good cause | Luke Timmerman, Timmerman Report
Ask a fact checker with Wudan Yan (journalist; fact checker, Factual) and Brooke Binkowski (senior editor, Times of San Diego)
🔭Events
Science Journalism Forum (October 28-31, 2024)
ScienceWriters2024 (November 8-11, 2024)
Chemistry Communication in India: Current and Future Trends (November 12, 2024)
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🔍Jobs
Public Engagement and Media Relations Specialist at Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) (Chevy Chase, MD)
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