✍️Science Writing News Roundup #35 (March 15, 2021)
How to crunch Covid-19 data + How to take advantage of online conferences
📺 Videos
A virtual conversation with Carl Zimmer on his new book. The New York Times science journalist Carl Zimmer talks with SWINY co-chair David Levine about his new book, Life’s Edge: The Search for What It Means To Be Alive.
A solutions journalism approach to covering the pandemic: Webinar with Chibuike Alagboso, health journalist and LEDE Fellow at the Solutions Journalism Network, moderated by ICFJ Global Forum Community Manager, Paul Adepoju.
How to crunch Covid-19 data: Data analysis has been crucial to better understanding, tracking and preventing the spread of Covid-19. The Economist's data journalists give an insider’s steer on how their analysis and presentation of data has shaped the coverage of the pandemic.
How to talk about climate change and Covid-19 with YouTube's ClimateAdam: How do you have meaningful conversations around really big, complex problems like climate change or Covid-19? Dr. Adam Levy, a science journalist and communicator, talks with Lindsay Smith Rogers about his work trying to creatively close the gap between research and action.
The media and the pandemic: Dr. Anthony Fauci, President Biden’s chief medical adviser on Covid-19, joined two leading science journalists and Brandeis journalism professor Neil Swidey for a conversation on science journalism and the pandemic on March 3.
🪂 Opportunities
Mongabay is seeking pitches for a special reporting project on bioenergy. This series will take a sustained look at bioenergy using a solutions journalism approach, evaluating how well they address the climate problem.
The MIT Environmental Solutions Initiative has launched a new journalism fellowship to support deeply reported, multimedia stories about local implications of climate change in newsrooms around the U.S.
Apply for The EurekAlert! Fellowships for International Science Reporters by March 16, 2021. The fellowship is open to early-career science and health journalists in China, India, the Balkan region, majority-Arab states in the Middle East, and Central and South America.
Fact-checking vaccine hoaxes? Apply now to the Vaccine Grant Program. In partnership with WhatsApp, IFCN will distribute a half million dollars to projects that can scale up the fight against pandemic rumors.
Now is the time for writers to present their best pieces for consideration in The Best Australian Science Writing 2021. “I’m looking for writing of all types, by writers, poets, journalists, scientists – anyone, really, who has taken the time to write about science in all its breadth and ambiguity,” writes Dyani Lewis, a freelance science journalist.
☀️ Tips
How to take advantage of online conferences: Taking advantage of virtual conferences without overdoing it can be tricky, but there are concrete steps we can take to make these experiences as smooth, positive, and profitable as possible, according to Rachel Crowell, a freelance math and science journalist.
Tips for budding science journalists in Southeast Asia: “Some form of formal training in science or journalism helps, of course, but as long as you plan and persist, you can succeed through trial and error in the field itself,” writes Yao-Hua Law, freelance science journalist.
🎫 Events
Online SciComm Coworking Session (March 16, 2021)
The Coronavirus Unveiled: What COVID-19 Is Teaching Us About Life, with Carl Zimmer, science columnist for The New York Times. (March 17, 2021)
Aspen Global Congress on Scientific Thinking & Action (March 17, 2021)
Reporting the Pandemic: Science Writing at The Atlantic (March 17, 2021)
Climate Conversations: Climate & COVID-19 (March 18, 2021)
Free Book Writing Discussion with Author and Agent Panel (March 23, 2021)
How to Research, Write and Publish a Solutions-Focused Book (March 24, 2021)
The Toughest Audience: Writing Science-Themed Books for Young People (March 24, 2021)
The State of Science Journalism: A Conversation with Laura Helmuth, Editor-in-Chief of Scientific American (March 25, 2021)
SCIENCE TALK '21 (March 24-26, 2021)
📬 Jobs and internships
Student Science Journalist Spring-2021, The College of New Jersey, NJ
News Editor, Health & Science, The Wall Street Journal, NY
Contributing Editors, Reasons to be Cheerful, Remote
Social Media Officer, The Institute of Cancer Research, London, UK
Climate Solutions Editor, The Washington Post, DC
Web/Social Media Strategist, NASA Ames Research Center, Mountain View, CA
Social Media Strategist, NASA Ames Research Center, Mountain View, CA
SciLine, Communications Intern, Washington, DC
SciLine, Experts on Camera Intern, Washington, DC
Assistant Science Writer, Florida Museum of Natural History, Gainesville, FL
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