✍️Science Writing News Roundup #74 (December 23, 2021)
How to find and use quotes in science stories
How to find and use quotes in science stories: Abdullahi Tsanni writes about how to select and use quotes for science stories. What makes a good quote? What purposes can quotes serve? When should you paraphrase instead of quoting? What should you do when a quote contains grammatical errors? And more.
🦠 Tips and resources
COVID-19 omicron variant and the holiday season. How might people plan to safely gather for the holidays, given what we currently know about the delta and omicron variants?
Tips for reporting on science skepticism. “Science skepticism” refers to the broader mistrust of experts and credible scientific findings that define such movements. As this becomes a more frequently reported story, it’s important to take care of how journalists report on it, in order to prevent misinterpreting what it is exactly, and the driving forces behind it.
Science journalists from the Global South offer tips to improve the coverage of COVID-19 and fight misinformation. The briefings are aimed at helping journalists navigate the latest challenges in reporting on the pandemic, including countering disinformation.
🎄 Podcasts
Tom Chivers on journalism and stats: In this episode of Research Comms, Tom Chivers talks about the media during the pandemic, about the pre-requisites for journalism and the tension between attracting a readership and writing serious news stories.
Environmental Journalism, Part 3: Covering major climate events. How should reporters explain the connection between extreme weather and rising temperatures?
🪶 Articles
Chris Muronzi on covering the women battling “man-made starvation” in Zimbabwe. Aishwarya Jagani recently spoke with Muronzi about how he developed and reported this story, how it affected him, and why he believes in the power of human resilience in the face of adversity.
🎅 Opportunities
Story grants on green recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic. EJN is offering reporting grants to support the production of in-depth or investigative stories that will highlight progress toward a post-pandemic "green recovery".
🔭 Videos
Setting up as a freelance journalist: A practical look at the essentials
Covering science in 2021: An editors' end year review, East Africa
📞 Events
ABSW Award Lecture 2022, The future of science journalism: perspectives from two winners from the 2021 ABSW Awards (January 27, 2022)
⏰ Jobs and internships
Reporter, MIT Technology Review
News Reporter, MIT Technology Review
Social Media Editor, New Scientist, London, UK
Newsperson, Amazon Basin, Associated Press, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Science Communications Internship, Research!America
Reporter or Senior Reporter, Biomedical Sciences, Nature, Washington, DC
Physical Sciences Reporter, American Chemical Society, Washington, DC
Life Sciences Reporter, American Chemical Society, Washington, DC
Executive Editor, Life Sciences, American Chemical Society, Washington, DC
Lead Science Writer, The American Physical Society, Remote
Editorial Intern, Reasons to be Cheerful, New York, NY
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