✍️Science Writing News Roundup #67 (October 24, 2021)

Science journalism meets social justice: Reporting in a time of racial reckoning.

Frank Matt on visualizing the scale of the world’s water crisis. Pedro Márquez-Zacarías (The Open Notebook’s newest early-career fellow) interviews Frank Matt about Matt's 2020 video documentary “World’s Water Crisis,” an episode of the Vox and Netflix series Explained that centers on local and global issues of access to water.

🗺️ Tips

• 5 tips for avoiding mistakes in news headlines about health and medical research.

• How (and why) to pitch a story that happened 100 years ago.

• Product and design thinking: These two techniques can help your science writing business.

• New tip sheet: The impact of climate change on health equity.

• What journalists need to know when covering climate change.

astrobites @astrobites

From @PicconeAshley: As a 2021 AAAS Mass Media Fellow, I learned what it meant to be a science journalist. Here are some tips that might help you do the same!

astrobites.orgInterested In Science Writing? The AAAS Mass Media Fellowship May Be For You…As a 2021 AAAS Mass Media Fellow, I learned what it meant to be a science journalist. Here are some tips that might help you do the same!

🚊 Opportunities

• Grants of up to $7,500 USD for journalists reporting on global health security. The 2021 Global Health Security Call will provide grants of up to $7,500 USD per project and is aimed at journalists publishing stories in opinion-forming media organisations across France, Germany, the UK, the Netherlands, Italy, Norway and Sweden. Applications close on 5 November 2021 at 17:00 CET.

Laura Helmuth @laurahelmuth

We're looking for freelance copy editors & fact-checkers to work with @sciam. We offer competitive rates, prompt payments, fascinating material & kind colleagues. (We do use the @KSJatMIT fact-checker database.) Please DM me or @ChristiKeller10 & thanks for sharing! @culturedish

tacey rychter @taceyrychter

Pitch me ✨science stories!✨ I'm editing for @NYTScience for the next few months and am looking to connect with some new voices. Writers can DM or email me at tacey.rychter@nytimes.com 📫

Karen Hao @_KarenHao

🚨 Sweet gig alert 🚨 I will be taking a 6-month leave from @techreview to focus on my MIT Knight Science Journalism fellowship, which means we're looking for an AI reporter to hold down the fort while I'm gone! Details threaded below. cc: @WritersofColor @aaja @NABJ @NAHJ

The Water Desk @TheWaterDesk

Deadline approaching: apply by November 1 for a grant of up to $10,000 to support water journalism connected to the Colorado River Basin.

waterdesk.orgApply for funding from The Water DeskHow journalists can apply to The Water Desk for funding to support their coverage of water issues in and around the Colorado River Basin.

MJ Banias @mjbanias

The Debrief is looking for #freelancers to contribute stories. Science, tech, futurism, and the space between possible and impossible. DM or email me for rates, pitches, etc.

Alex Pope @XelaEpop

Delighted to share that I am once again accepting pitches for @CanGeo and @CanGeo_Travel digital! Hit me with your best ideas about (Canadian) wildlife, environmental science, human & cultural geography and cool travel opportunities. Email in bio 🙌🏻

📎 Articles

• Probing patient stories–and unsettled science–without breaking trust.

• Science journalism meets social justice: Reporting in a time of racial reckoning.

• The changing landscape of science filmmaking.

• How to cover science responsibly across borders.

• SciWri21 highlight: “So you want to write a book”

• When editors and scientists meet: communicating science without dumbing it down.

🌄 News

• Science journalists under pressure amid COVID-19. The Global Science Journalism Report 2021, published by SciDev.Net to celebrate its 20th anniversary, found that work has become “more intense” for science journalists around the world, with climate change, health and technology their main areas of focus.

Medical Research Council @The_MRC

It’s time to reveal the winners of the 2021 Max Perutz Science Writing Award! 🏆 Our judges had a tough time this year as the shortlisted entries were all fantastic, so there will be two commended prizes, two runners-up, and of course the overall winner. Here we go… #MaxP21

🍿 Videos

• Discovering science through children’s non-fiction picture books.

• Mary Roach discusses craft and humor in science writing with the Northwest Science Writers Association

• Fluorescent Wombats and Ig Nobel Prizes: Reporting Weird Science | Kavli Conversation

• State on Fire: Exploring Links Between California’s Fires and Climate Change

• Global Science Journalism Report 2021 presented at SciDev.Net's 20th Anniversary event

📌 Events

• COVID-19, Science, and the Media: Lessons Learned Reporting on the Pandemic (October 26, 2021)

• Mental Health Management for Freelancers (October 26, 2021)

• Workshop: Everything to know about selling and writing a nonfiction book (October 26, 2021)

• Law Enforcement and Genetic Data: A Discussion for Journalists (October 26, 2021)

• Japan Scicom Forum (October 26-27, 2021)

• COP26 – Our role in reporting climate crisis (October 27, 2021)

• Scientific Knowledge for Everyone (October 27, 2021)

• Getting a boost from evidence- and science-based solutions (October 27, 2021)

• The Psychology and Politics of Conspiracy Theories (October 27, 2021)

• Press Briefing: COP26 Goals and Stories to Tell (October 28, 2021)

• AAAS Kavli Lecture with Dan Fagin: Denialism is a Virus, Too: The Toms River Childhood Cancer Cluster as Seen From 2021 (October 28, 2021)

• Climate Crisis Advisory Group Meeting: All eyes are on Glasgow, but what can the COP26 moment deliver? (October 28, 2021)

🎨 Jobs and Internships

• Spring Writing Intern, Quanta Magazine, New York City, NY

• Sr. Writer, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD

• Science Writer/Content Strategist, CG Life, US

• Freelance Associate Writer – Science and Wellness, WarnerMedia, Atlanta, GA

• Senior Science Writer, Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, MA

• More jobs 👉 Science Writing News Roundup #66

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