✍️Science Writing News Roundup #36 (March 22, 2021)

Creating and sustaining an email newsletter + Diverse sources COVID-19 edition + Popular science writing training

Last October, Chandra Bozelko, Ambika Chawla, Jesse Kathan, Ciara Reyes-Ton, and reporting duo Elora Apantaku and Charmaine Runes were selected as recipients of NASW’s new Diversity Reporting Grants. Here’s what they produced. (Image by NASW)

🚵 Opportunities

• Your story could be this year's Oakes Award winner: Submit your best environmental reporting before April 22.

• The application for the Rosalynn Carter Fellowships for Mental Health is now open for residents of the United States, Latin America, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates.

• A group of climate journalists are launching The Uproot Project to support environmental journalists of color. The project is dedicated to advancing the careers of journalists who have been historically underrepresented in environmental and science journalism.

• The Health Affairs Podcast Fellowship is a new program for U.S.-based individuals with an interest in health policy and storytelling.

Ezra David Romero @ezraromero

First day as a climate reporter with @KQEDnews/@KQEDscience. How is the climate emergency altering your life, your job, your home, your family? Are you working on interesting climate science, advocating for change, etc.? Pitch me: eromero@kqed.org

The Science Network @SciNetUCS

Share your story about how you've used science for the public good in our new blog series! Pitches accepted until March 31, submit today! bit.ly/pitch-ucs-blog

Christina Agapakis @thisischristina

I'm looking for writers for @growbyginkgo to dig into the possibilities of an intersectional feminist synthetic biology. Please reach out and recommend folks!

CAP Energy Policy @CAPenergypolicy

We're hiring a Storytelling & Communications intern! Paid opportunity to amplify the stories of folks experiencing the climate crisis, enviro injustice, & clean energy jobs to make the case for climate action. Open to current & recent grads! Apply:

americanprogress.orgStory Bank and Communications Internship, Energy and Environment War Room - Center for American ProgressAmerican Progress has an opening for a virtual summer 2021 intern with the Energy and Environment War Room, the communications and rapid-response arm of the broader Energy and Environment team. The Story Bank and Communications Intern will support the team’s story bank project by interviewing indivi…

🏞️ Tips

• Creating and sustaining an email newsletter. Publishing a newsletter can be rewarding in many ways: It can help writers grow their audiences, hone their writing skills, fill gaps in news coverage, and advance their careers, writes Marina Philip.

• Science journalist talks about pivoting during the pandemic: Stephani Sutherland, a freelance writer focused on chronic pain issues, talks with AHCJ about how she made the pivot to a new reporting specialty and how she has been finding new stories during the pandemic.

📰 News

• Updates for freelancers: Pandemic assistance and the PRO Act. Recently, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the PRO Act. This legislation is described as a bill that protects workers' right to organize, but there’s an issue, the inclusion of the ABC Test, that is of particular concern to freelancers—and the editors and publishers who hire them.

• How well does the media cover the climate movement? Despite a wealth of evidence establishing climate change as a story of massive, global importance, many news organizations still needed to be led out of the darkness, according to Mark Hertsgaard, the executive director of Covering Climate Now.

📹 Videos

• Popular Science Writing Training: Writing for Lay Audiences (For Beginners)

• The Big Story: COVID-19, One Year and Counting

• The Aspen Global Congress on Scientific Thinking & Action

🔬 Tools

• The Verge’s Nicole Wetsman on the tools she uses for covering health news: The Verge talked to one of their top science and health reporters to find out how she does her job and what tools she uses.

• Diverse Sources: COVID-19 Edition. Visit NPR’s Source of the Week's new mini-database. It holds 100-plus experts from racially or ethnically underrepresented backgrounds who can provide context and insight on the pandemic. Read more about it on the Source of the Week website.

Timothy Caulfield @CaulfieldTim

Useful! COVID-19 Vaccine Media Hub health-desk.org/collection-pro… via @SMCCanada @AusSMC "A global resource for journalists and fact-checkers, providing a hub for the latest scientific information, expert opinion and evidence-based research on COVID-19 vaccines." #ScienceUpFirst

🛤️ Events

• 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)

• Career Night in Science Communication (March 25, 2021)

• SCIENCE TALK '21 (March 24-26, 2021)

• Covering the COVID-19 vaccine: What journalists need to know (March 29 - April 25, 2021)

• Webinar: Investigative Climate Reporting (March 29, 2021)

ComSciCon NY @ComSciConNY

📢 Attention NY SciCommers! 📢 Applications for our 2021 ComSciCon-NY Virtual Conference are open NOW! Register using the form below and come join us on May 21st & 22nd! #scicomm 🗨️✍️🎨 Registration link: bit.ly/3bROa7b

Nicole Stamp @nicolestamp

Science & Media pals, I'll be teaching at this conference in April - a virtual offshoot of the Banff Science Communications Program I attended a while back. Free, interactive way to hone science communication skills in writing, presentation, & media!

bit.lyScience CommunicationsThe world needs skilled science communicators from all walks of life — more now than ever. To meet this need and blow open access, a group of leading science communications trainers and have come together to offer a free 2.5-day intensive.

📬 Jobs and internships

• Communications Officer, The Foundation for the National Institutes of Health, North Bethesda, MD

• Content Team Lead, EMBL Heidelberg, Germany

• Environment & Climate Change Reporter, CapRadio, Sacramento, CA

• Student science writer, UW-Madison, Madison, WI

• News Intern, Nature Magazine, United States

• Scientific Communication Officer, European Medicines Agency, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

• Social Media Producer, AAAS, Washington, DC

• SEA Change, Communications Intern, AAAS, Washington, DC

• ScienceUpFirst Content Producers, Canada

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