✍️Science Writing News Roundup #216
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🎯Resources
Risk Journalism: a guide to clear reporting on any topic. This guide is designed for journalists who cover stories about risks in any sector: health, environment, artificial intelligence, and more.
Tip sheet: The story behind award-winning stories: A conversation with Usha Lee McFarling. Video recording, resources, and tips from the CASW Connector Chat on Wednesday, October 9, 2024.
The Public Health Communicators Guide to Misinformation: This guide, developed by the Public Health Communications Collaborative in partnership with the Infodemiology Training Program, provides foundational insights into the current misinformation landscape and an overview of tools for assessing risk and determining responses.
2025 Journalists’ Guide to Environment + Energy. In this special report, “2025 Journalists’ Guide to Environment + Energy,” the SEJournal looks ahead in its ninth annual guide to key issues in the coming year.
How to cover environmental exposure studies: There’s not necessarily a “right” way to cover these studies, but there are certainly pitfalls and ways to improve coverage.
Factcheck post: Harris vs. Trump on Climate Change. Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump have starkly different track records on climate change. To shed light on the two candidates’ climate agendas, FactCheck sorted through their campaign materials and recent statements on the campaign trail.
🧭Articles
Weaving Indigenous Science into Reported Stories: Indigenous science is deeply interwoven with ecology, astronomy, and medicine, among other fields often deemed “Western” science. Yet journalists, alongside mainstream scientists, have not historically recognized the value and importance of Indigenous expertise.
Q&A with Laura Helmuth, editor-in-chief of Scientific American. In this interview, Helmuth discusses her role at Scientific American and its decision to endorse Kamala Harris for president. She also offers advice to students interested in reporting and editing about science.
Getting a taste of science journalism at IFLScience: Jasmine Reggiani, a postdoctoral fellow at the Sainsbury Wellcome Centre, was a fellow with IFLScience for four weeks.
Nurturing the evolution of diverse science journalism: Discussions intersecting diversity, equity and inclusion efforts, and the future of journalism at UKCSJ24 served food for thought.
🖼️Opportunities
📻Videos & Podcasts
Ghosted: Desperately Seeking Mental Health Care. Learn about the challenges facing many Americans when trying to access mental health care through commercial health plans, why these problems are so stubbornly persistent, and what can be done to lessen the gap between physical and mental health care in the US.
Emerging Form: Richard Panek on the Power of Not Knowing. Richard Panek discusses how he found the form for the book Pillars of Creation: How the James Webb Space Telescope Unlocked the Secrets of the Cosmos, his favorite punctuation and how it helps to create a more conversation tone, how blog writing informs his book writing, and trying creative things you haven’t tried before.
CCNow Basics: The Three Pillars: In this training session, journalists learned the Three Pillar approach to climate change journalism: Humanize. Localize. Solutionize.
Kidlit Convos Ep. 1: Writing a Picture Book Series with Volcanoes author Nell Cross Beckerman. What does it take to become the author of a nonfiction picture book series? Nell Cross Beckerman, author of CAVES and VOLCANOES (both illustrated by Kalen Chock) explains.
🌍News
Pulitzer Center Announces the 2024-2025 Cohort of AI Accountability Fellows. Nine journalists based in five continents have been chosen to spend the next 10 months investigating the impact of AI technologies on their communities.
The National Association of Science Writers announced the results of its 2024 board election. The new NASW Board of Directors officially begins its term on Monday, Nov. 11, coinciding with ScienceWriters2024 in Raleigh.
The Society of Environmental Journalists announced the winners of the SEJ Awards for Reporting on the Environment, which honor the best stories released from April 1, 2023 through April 30, 2024, and the best books on environmental topics published in 2023.
📆Events
ScienceWriters2024 (November 8-11, 2024)
Chemistry Communication in India: Current and Future Trends (November 12, 2024)
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