✍️Science Writing News Roundup #60 (September 6, 2021)

Video: Using social media to source and spread science journalism + The Objective is looking for science journalism pitches!

🗺️ Opportunities

• Science Talk is now accepting proposals for speaking opportunities at the SCIENCE TALK '22 annual conference to be both in person and online from Wednesday, March 23 through Friday, March 25, 2022.

• The Objective is looking for science journalism pitches! Funded by the National Association of Science Writers, The Objective is soliciting pitches on how science journalism ignores the communities it should be helping, as well as stories on how science journalists from historically marginalized backgrounds were failed by editors and institutions.

• Climate Tracker is offering 1) a climate journalism fellowship in the Philippines, 2) a COP26 climate justice journalism fellowship (online), and 3) a COP26 journalism fellowship (in-person).

• Registration opens today for the world’s largest fact-checking summit. Global Fact 8, hosted by Poynter’s International Fact-Checking Network, will take place online Oct. 20-23, 2021.

• Connected Coastlines Grants: The Pulitzer Center is seeking applications from journalists who want to report stories as part of Connected Coastlines, a nationwide climate reporting initiative in U.S. coastal states.

Ours to Save @ourstosave

Back at it again! Ours to Save is looking for pitches on global climate SOLUTIONS. More below👇 #pitchus #journorequest #callforpitches #pitches

Earth Journalism Network @earthjournalism

Calling all environment, business economics and energy reporters in India! We're seeking pitches from journalists on the country's #RenewableEnergy sector: Entrepreneurship, innovations & obstacles. Submit by Sept. 12:

earthjournalism.netRenewable Energy in India: Entrepreneurship, Innovations and ChallengesInternews’ Earth Journalism Network (EJN) is offering grants to boost reporting on renewable energy in India.

SciShortform @SciShortform

CALL FOR NOMINATIONS (Please RT!): We're collecting nominations for Best Shortform Science Writing: July-December 2021. Pieces should be already published & 1200-1400 words or less. We have categories for news, essays, & institutional #scicomm. Tag us w/links to yr nominations!

European Journalism Centre @ejcnet

Gaining #datajournalism skills can increase commissions and career opportunities for #freelancejournalists. This data bootcamp is a great chance to learn how to collect&analyse data and bring your work to the next level🚀 🗓️ Deadline: 10 September buff.ly/3y0PRam

IRE and NICAR @IRE_NICAR

Apply by Oct. 11 to be one of IRE's 2021 Journalist of Color fellows! Includes: - Mentorship - Registration & support for a 2021 data bootcamp, #NICAR22 & #IRE22 - Data services - IRE membership ire.org/training/fello…

🧰 Tips

• Personal finance tips for student journalists: Navigating your first job offer, budgeting and more. Julia Carpenter of The Wall Street Journal offered advice for young journalists on negotiating, budgeting, benefits and more.

🎬 Videos

• Reporting vaccines, hesitancy and misinformation without promoting falsehoods

• Using social media to source and spread science journalism

• Briefing on the IPCC’s 6th Assessment Report

• Media briefing: Tackling the climate crisis at home and abroad

• How five school districts kept their communities safe from COVID-19

• News briefing: Australia must reach net-zero emissions. Can technology get us there?

• Wildfires: Climate connections & community impacts

🎟️ Events

• Skype a Scientist presents Science Journalism with Vicky Stein (September 7, 2021)

• Careers in Science Journalism and Communication (September 8, 2021)

• The Latest on Variants and Breakthrough Infections (September 13, 2021)

• How to Find and Write Your Best Science Story (September 14, 2021)

• The 6th Major IPCC Science Report and its Implications (September 15, 2021)

• Climate Conversations: Extreme Events (September 15, 2021)

• Press Briefing | Countdown to COP26: What's at Stake? (September 15, 2021)

• Responding to the Climate Crisis - taking action on the IPCC 6th Assessment Report (September 17, 2021)

RedMexPeriodCiencia @red_mpc

¡Está listo el programa del #ForoCovidYMásAllá! 🥳🥳🥳 Te invitamos a una semana de conversaciones, debates y entrevistas. Consulta cada sesión y regístrate: redmpc.wordpress.com/que-hacemos/fo…

📞 Internships

• Summer Intern, The Washington Post, DC

• Rainforest Journalism Fund Internship, Pulitzer Center, Remote

💰 Jobs

• Science Writer, The Explorer’s Guide to Biology, Remote

• Science Communications Manager, The San Diego Natural History Museum, CA

• Social Media and Communications Officer, The Science and Technology Facilities Council, Oxfordshire, UK

• Climate Newsletter Writer and Reporter, The New York Times, NY

• Climate & Sustainability Reporter, The 19th, Remote

• Science Writer, The Broad Institute, Cambridge, MA

• More jobs 👉 Science Writing News Roundup #59

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The Xylom™ @thexylom

NEW: Check out the third and final installment of @KrishnaS1241's journal of his time as an @AAASMassMedia Fellow at the Miami Herald! #scicomm #journalism #xforxylom

thexylom.com“Your Peers Really Celebrate Your Successes, Even if They Just Met You!”This was an incredibly dense crash course into science journalism and seems to have successfully prepared me for a future in it.

The Science Literacy Foundation @sci_project

Local news sources play a critical role in the American media diet, so it’s crucial to the public interest that local reporters & editors are equipped to consistently tell accurate & engaging stories that involve science. 👩‍🔬 🦠 Learn more: ow.ly/A72y50G00a4 @Open_Notebook