✍️Science Writing News Roundup #51 (July 5, 2021)

Apply now for Science Journalism Forum (SJF) 2021 attendance fellowships + Self-care tips for journalists

🧰 Resources and tips

• An international student’s guide to freelancing in the U.S. “International students must take some preliminary steps with their schools before pursuing paid writing opportunities. Nevertheless, with planning and good record-keeping, it is possible to freelance while on a student visa,” writes Natalia Gutiérrez-Pinto.

• How to pitch a science book. What makes for a good book? How do you even contact a press, find an editor, and pitch them? What does a pitch or book proposal even look like? Massive spoke with Miranda Martin, editor at Columbia University Press to talk through the details of the process.

• Self-care tips for journalists — plus a list of several resources. There are many things journalists can do to improve their mental health. Here are some practical tips from Dr. Elana Newman, research director at the Dart Center for Journalism & Trauma at Columbia University.

🌟 Opportunities

Earth Journalism Network @earthjournalism

Interested in covering climate change from the best seat in the house - the 26th Conference of Parties in Glasgow this November? Luckily for you, EJN & @StanleyConnect are offering journalists travel fellowships to attend. Apply by July 23:

earthjournalism.netClimate Change Media Partnership 2021 Reporting Fellowships to COP26Apply to cover COP26 in Glasgow this year through our Climate Change Media Partnership fellowships. Due July 23.

The Open Notebook @Open_Notebook

TON is proud to be a content parter for Science Journalism Forum 2021! Members of our community (that’s you!) can get 25% registration discount (use code TON25), but you can also apply for one of @ScienceJF's fellowships. #SJF21

Science Journalism Forum @ScienceJF

📢 Apply now for Science Journalism Forum (SJF) 2021 Attendance Fellowships SJF is offering fellowships for journalists and editors who can’t afford the attendance fees and get access to all the exclusive content-rich panels and talks for free. https://t.co/VKmR6qOoHi https://t.co/n8i9Wc7HUR

SciShortform @SciShortform

~CALL FOR NOMINATIONS~ We're looking for science, health, and environmental stories that clock in at 600 words or less. To nominate a piece, tag @SciShortform (or DM us) with a link. Winning pieces will be featured in the next Best Shortform Science Writing round-up.

AAAS Kavli Awards @AAASKavli

Since 2015, our awards contest has been open to science journalists all over the world. Last year’s winners included the program’s first award recipients from Indonesia and Kenya. Enter this year's contest at: entersjawards.aaas.org. Contest closes August 1 at 11:59 PM (PT).

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) @WHOI

🚨Attention science storytellers 🚨Join #WHOI for the 2021 Ocean Science Journalism Fellowship, where you can expand your knowledge in oceanography, marine studies, and engineering. Applications are due Aug. 13. Learn more and apply here: whoi.edu/press-room/jou…

whoi.eduJournalism Fellowship - Woods Hole Oceanographic InstitutionOcean Science Journalism Fellowship October 18-22, 2021 WHOI’s Ocean Science Journalism (OSJ) Fellowship offers professional science writers, producers, and editors working for print, broadcast, radio, and digital media the residential experience at a leading ocean research institution. Created in 2…

cara giaimo @cjgiaimo

☀️CALL FOR PITCHES - PLEASE RT☀️ are you a fan of the many incredible animals, plants, fungi, bacteria etc. who live here on Earth with us? i'm working on a new book for Atlas Obscura about those guys. it's called Wild Life. i want you to pitch me for it! (thread 1/6)

📣 Articles

• Climate coverage feels the heat, again. The climate crisis is indeed making extreme heat worse, but—as is so often the case with coverage of weather events—news organizations haven’t uniformly done a great job of prominently communicating this context.

• Newsrooms often don’t tell job and internship applicants that they didn’t get the gig. Is that wrong? The happy medium between informing job or internship applicants and managing busy newsrooms is hard to find.

The Open Notebook @Open_Notebook

Science writers! For a TON story, @abdultsanni wants to know: What are your favorite digital tools for organizing yourselves? Let’s hear about your go-to apps and tricks!

👏 News

NLGJA: The Association of LGBTQ Journalists @nlgja

Congratulations to Helen Santoro, one of the winners of the 2021 Curve Award for Emerging Journalists. Helen is a freelance science journalist who covers health, medicine, neuroscience, the environment and LGBTQ+ communities.

Pulitzer Center @pulitzercenter

Thank you & congratulations to all of our 2021 Reporting Fellows! We are looking forward to seeing your projects unfold. Don't miss our Reporting Fellows' work on our website in the year to come. Welcome, Fellows! bit.ly/3ztcYMH

🖥️ Videos

• What happened when scientists had the opportunity to ‘ask a reporter anything’. At a recent online event hosted by SciLine, scientists asked a panel of journalists questions about how journalism works.

• 2021 Science Writers' Boot Camp (Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine)

• Wiley Science Talks with Cochrane | What journalists need to know about research integrity.

• 2021 AAAS Mass Media Fellows Stephanie Castillo, Brianna Barbu and Priya Dames reflect on their paths to science communication.

🎟️ Events

• Advanced Storytelling Workshop by The Story Collider (July 5, 2021)

• Science Journalism Summer School, ABSW (July 8, 2021)

• Talking Shop: Heat, Fires, and the Climate Connection (July 8, 2021)

• ABSW 2021 Awards Ceremony, a free online event celebrating excellence in science writing (July 8, 2021)

• Introductory Storytelling Workshop by The Story Collider (July 12, 2021)

• Editing Controversial and “Controversial” Science (July 15, 2021)

• Finding Ada Conference 2021 (July 20-22, 2021). Sessions include: How to write a popular science book, and how to start your own podcast.

💎 Jobs and internships

• Investigations Editor, The BMJ, Cardiff, London, Noida, Beijing or New Jersey

• Editorial Manager, DeepMind, London, UK

• News/Data Editor, Science News, US-based

• Science Writing Internship, Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History, Remote

• Senior Reporter, Climate Justice, Guardian US, New York, NY

• Freelance Writer, Crash Course Biology, Remote

• Production Editor (freelance), The Royal Astronomical Society, UK

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