✍️Science Writing News Roundup #75 (January 8, 2022)
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☀️ Opportunities
The Economist invites applications for the 2022 Richard Casement internship. They are looking for a would-be journalist to spend three months of the summer working on the newspaper in London (covid-19 permitting; otherwise remotely), writing about science and technology.
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".
CASW opens entry window for 2022 awards, fellowships. The Council for the Advancement of Science Writing is accepting submissions for five academic fellowships and three major awards to be bestowed in 2022—including a new $20,000 career prize, the Sharon Begley Science Reporting Award.
The ABSW awards for 2022 are now open to entries. There are 14 categories, including a new one for podcasts with a £1075 prize to celebrate their 75th anniversary.
The deadline to apply for the 2022 Logan Science Journalism Program is January 31, 2022. There are two different applications: one for the Environmental Hands-On Course and one for the Biomedical Hands-On Course.
Apply to the Victor K. McElheny Award. The award will honor one work of journalism — print, digital, or broadcast — with a $5,000 prize. Submissions will be accepted through Friday, January 31, 2022.
✏️ Articles
Just a little too slow: Why journalists struggle to cover climate change. The biggest news story of all time doesn’t quite fit our working definition of news, and hence is going remarkably undercovered.
📻 News
Fourteen journalists from thirteen countries as diverse as Colombia, Kenya, Palestine and Serbia are joining the Reuters Institute as Journalist Fellows in January 2022.
📞 Events
The COVID Variants: Omicron and Beyond: A Virtual Conversation with Dr. Mark J. Mulligan, Director of the NYU Langone Vaccine Center (January 13, 2022)
ABSW Award Lecture 2022, The future of science journalism: perspectives from two winners from the 2021 ABSW Awards (January 27, 2022)
⏰ Jobs and internships
Science Reporter, The New York Times, New York, NY
Research Communications Officer, Alzheimer's Society, UK
Research Communications, Senior Writer, The Ohio State University, OH
Science Writer, College of Science at Oregon State University, OR
Reporter or Senior Reporter, Biomedical Sciences, Nature, Washington, DC
Environment Reporter, CalMatters, Sacramento, CA
Reporter, Science, Insider, New York, NY
Science Writer, BioStrata, Remote
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