✍️Science Writing News Roundup #229
How to Cover Aging + The Journalism & Science Alliance + AI and Journalism.
Submissions Accepted Now Through March 31 for the 2025 Awards for Excellence in Science Communications: $640,000 to Be Awarded.
Submissions are now being accepted for the National Academies Eric and Wendy Schmidt Awards for Excellence in Science Communications, given by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine in partnership with Schmidt Sciences. The awards honor exceptional science communicators, journalists, and research scientists who have developed creative, original work to communicate issues or advances in science, engineering, or medicine to the general public.
Submissions are encouraged from individuals who have developed high-quality communications in 2024 and demonstrated the ability to communicate the spectrum of science, engineering, or medicine. The program will confer 24 awards totaling $640,000.
Entries are accepted in the following subcategories:
Nine Awards for Research Scientists will focus on three subcategories: graduate student researchers, early-career researchers, and later-career researchers.
Nine Awards for Science Journalists will focus on three subcategories: local/regional journalists, early-career journalists, and freelance journalists.
Six Awards for Science Communicators will focus on two subcategories: independent communicators and organizational communicators.
Apply now and learn more at: https://www.nationalacademies.org/awards/excellence-in-communication/for-applicants
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🖼Features
Wrapping up with a Big Bang: Rob Irion, longtime UC Santa Cruz senior lecturer and former Science Communication Program director, wrapped up 25 years of teaching this past fall, capping a career that helped create the leading science journalism training program in the world.
📣Resources
Write sharper and edit smarter with new free course on concise and impactful storytelling: In today’s fast-paced digital world, where attention spans are shorter than ever, clear, concise, and engaging writing is crucial.
🧪Opportunities
How to Cover Aging: From “Healthspan” Disparities to Age-Friendly Cities. Applications are now open for a free, two-day intensive reporting workshop to be held at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY in New York City, from June 4-6, 2025. This training is open to journalists who have at least three years of full-time experience or the equivalent.
The Journalism & Science Alliance: €2.7 million to strengthen investigative journalism based on science. In collaboration with NOVA University of Lisbon, the European Journalism Centre has launched a new program to promote investigative journalism based on science.
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🌎Articles
A temperature check on climate communication: where are we? Research in climate science and its communication has splintered into myriad siloed branches in recent decades, presenting challenges and opportunities to explore and consolidate knowledge on climate science, its ethical communication, and the public’s reception of it.
A new book is training the next generation of journalists — before they even hit high school. Time for Kids is giving children a crash course in journalism, teaching them how to find facts, tell stories and navigate today’s media landscape.
So you want to write a personal essay: Christian Elliott’s first ever op-ed was published in Undark Magazine. He shares some thoughts on the process, as a journalist.
A farewell to Harvard Public Health readers: The last story for a magazine that looked at what worked in public health, what didn’t, and why.
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📱Videos & Podcasts
SEJ Webinar: Wildfire and the New Extremes — A Journalist Convening.
Health Storytelling with Guest Adam Ratner. Maryn McKenna and guest Dr. Adam Ratner, MD, MPH, discuss his work and new book, BOOSTER SHOTS: The Urgent Lessons of Measles and the Uncertain Future of Children's Health.
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✏️Events
89 seconds to midnight: Is time running out on nuclear arms control? (March 3, 2025)
AI and Journalism - panel discussion on latest opportunities and challenges (March 5, 2025)
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✉️Jobs
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