✍️Science Writing News Roundup #50 (June 28, 2021)
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AAAS Kavli winners reflect on Covid-19 and public health reporting. A year and a half after the first reported outbreak in Wuhan, China, AAAS caught up with past winners of the AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Awards about their experience reporting on the pandemic, and how they think this event will shape the future of public health reporting. (Image by AAAS, clockwise from top left: Anna Maria Barry-Jester, Jop de Vrieze, Nsikan Akpan, Amy Maxmen, Ed Yong, Maryn McKenna, Yunanto Utomo)
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🔭 Videos
Ask a reporter anything: A briefing for scientists about how the news works
Science writer Kai Kupferschmidt reflects on the roles we play in achieving science literacy, giving us ‘nerd immunity’
Science writing and the pandemic with Adam Rogers, Senior Correspondent at Wired
✌️ Resources and tips
Science journalist Siri Carpenter talks about story ideas and combating misinformation post COVID-19.
What journalists need to know when interviewing a transgender person: A transgender activist and former journalist urges reporters to move past the bathroom question and other false stereotypes.
Tips on picking good photos for vaccine stories. Check out a library of free images sponsored by the American Academy of Pediatrics and Self Magazine.
Covering HIV angles and updated HIV and AIDS resources tip sheet.
🏆 Opportunities
AAAS Kavli Awards honor distinguished science journalism. Submissions for the 2021 AAAS Kavli Awards are now open until August 1 at midnight U.S. Pacific time.
📬 Articles
When a good scientist is the wrong source: How a bad “fact” helped the lab-leak hypothesis go viral.
A day in the life of Eric Boodman. Eric is a reporter for STAT, where he’s written about entomologists who specialize in fictional infestations, Haitian-American hospital workers lost to COVID-19, and many other subjects.
Confronting gender bias in Nature’s journalism: An external analysis of 15 years of stories finds men quoted more than twice as often as women.
“Wow, getting paid to learn how to write about science. A dream come true!” The Xylom asked a number of AAAS Mass Media Fellows to reflect on what they have learned, how they have changed, and why it matters.
🔎 News
Fellowship highlights need for science communicators: The 47th class of Mass Media Science & Technology Fellows heading out to newsrooms around the US this summer is part of one of the oldest ongoing science communication initiatives by the AAAS.
Five early-career science journalists have been selected for the 2021 EurekAlert! Fellowships for International Science Reporters. The winners of the 2021 fellowships are: 1) Mouttasem Albarodi, freelance, Egypt; 2) Vishwam Sankaran, The Independent, India; 3) Panos Tsimboukis, TO VIMA, Greece; 4) Bruno Vaiano, Superinteressante, Brazil, and 5) Luyi Xu, Caixin Media, China.
📻 Events
Breaking into Content Marketing (June 29, 2021)
COVID Q&A with Apoorva Mandavilli, and DCSWA’s Newsbrief Awards (June 29, 2021)
Wiley Science Talks with Cochrane: What Journalists Need to Know About Research Integrity (June 30, 2021)
SWARM Early Career Science Writers Panel (June 30, 2021)
Introductory Storytelling Workshop by The Story Collider (July 5, 2021)
Advanced Storytelling Workshop by The Story Collider (July 5, 2021)
Science Journalism Summer School, ABSW (July 8, 2021)
🪂 Jobs and internships
Trainee News Reporter, New Scientist, London, UK
Social Media Content Development Manager, MilliporeSigma, Temecula, CA, Burlington, MA. or St. Louis, MO.
Staff Writer, Clean Energy, Mongabay India, India
Climate Science Editor, Science Feedback, Remote
Science Communications Officer, The Company of Biologists, Cambridge, UK
Science Writer, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
Science Writer (Communications), Sanford Burnham Prebys, La Jolla, CA
Assistant Director, Marketing and Communications, The College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
Content and Science Writer, European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts, Bonn, Germany
Freelance Science Writer, The Lupus Research Alliance, US-based
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