✍️Science Writing News Roundup #82 (March 1, 2022)

📰 Opportunities

• Apply for the 2022 Schmidt Award for Excellence in Science Communication: Submissions are accepted in six categories: freelance journalists, early career journalists, and reporting at the local/regional level (science journalism); and graduate students, early career researchers, and later career researchers (science communication by research scientists).

• Apply to be a UC Berkeley 11th Hour Food & Farming Journalism Fellow. $10K to report a long form print or audio story on food, health, agriculture, and climate change.

• 2022 NASW Diversity Summer Fellowship: The National Association of Science Writers is offering a fellowship for students and early-career science communicators undertaking summer internships. Three applicants from underrepresented groups will each receive a $5,000 fellowship.

James Temple @jtemple

Our six-month emerging journalist fellowship applications for 2022 are now open! Please come help us cover climate change, cybersecurity, biotech, AI or did I mention climate change?

technologyreview.comEmerging Journalist FellowshipTechnology is shaping the world, and both the people shaping the technology and the journalists reporting on it are disproportionately white and male. We offer this fellowship to encourage emerging journalists, but especially women, non-binary or trans people, and people of color, to come and develo…

Uproot Project @uproot_project

Exciting #announcement no. 2 for the week: Applications for our Environmental Justice Fellowship program are officially OPEN! 😍 We are offering $2,000 grants for projects that shed new light on environmental justice issues.🌱 Get all the detes here: bit.ly/3uW6zK7

bit.lyThe Uproot Project Environmental Justice Fellowship.pdf

Covering Climate Now @CoveringClimate

📢 AWARDS DEADLINE EXTENDED! We are extending the entry deadline through March 8th to be considerate of journalists’ time given the conflict in Ukraine. Apply by 3/8: bit.ly/3setFtH #CCNowAwards

ABSW @absw

Could you be the first Young Science Writer of the Year? Open to 14-16 year old students from non-selective state funded schools in Glasgow, Cardiff, Birmingham and Newham, writing about science, technology, engineering and maths. Read more: absw.org.uk/pages/young-sc… @Ri_Science

📨 Articles

• Reporting on scientific controversy: Pedro Márquez-Zacarías, one of TON’s early-career fellows, delves into how to cover scientific controversy. The challenges of doing so, he writes, include that “technical aspects can be hard to vet, experts may be wary of taking a clear stance or speaking to the press, and everyone is frustrated.” Covering controversy well, he says, requires recognizing that scientists are people, “with egos, blind spots, and fears.”

• One journalist’s journey to uncovering the truth behind long-COVID treatments. In this “How I Did It” video interview, Kiera Butler talks about why she wrote the story “Desperate patients shelling out thousands for a long COVID cure. Is it for real?”, how she found her sources and offers advice to other journalists investigating long COVID.

• Dibbler dingles, worm blobs, and fossilized poop: Finding humor in science. When science news is filled with crises from climate change to COVID-19, it can feel like there’s nothing left to laugh about. Yet some journalists manage to find humor in science and satisfy our appetites for comic relief.

🔑 Resources

• Tips for reporting on Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

• So you want to write a book? Part 1: Have a strong story and resilient ego. Here are six things to consider as you begin your quest to write a nonfiction book.

• So you want to write a book? Part 2: Agents, queries and timelines. Newspaperman-turned-author Bryan Denson shares how he organizes his notes and timelines for books.

• White papers, working papers, preprints, journal articles: What’s the difference?

• ‘Using academic research to keep politicians honest’: A video training for journalists across beats. This recording of a 50-minute training session shows journalists how research can be a powerful tool for holding governments and politicians accountable and fighting disinformation.

Science Media Centre UK @SMC_London

expert reaction to AR6, Working Group 2 (Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability), as published by the IPCC

sciencemediacentre.orgexpert reaction to AR6, Working Group 2 (Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability), as published by the IPCC | Science Media Centre

SciLine @RealSciLine

Authors of the @IPCC_CH #ClimateReport answer: What should journalists know as they dig into this report? #IPCC #Climate

sciline.orgIPCC Working Group II report: Quotes from contributors - SciLine

📺 Videos

• IPCC Press Conference - Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation & Vulnerability

• Journalism and the Climate Change Crisis eSummit

• Media briefing: The pandemic’s impacts on children

• Does Science Communication Still Work? (AAAS Annual Meeting)

• Meet Authors of the U.N. Report on Global Warming Impacts, Vulnerability and Adaptation

🎁 Events

• Science Through Story Workshop: Developing Science Stories (March 5, 2022)

• Genomics and the Media: Joe Palca, Science Correspondent, National Public Radio (March 8, 2022)

• Taking a Bite Out of Climate Change: A Conversation with Pat Brown of Impossible Foods (March 9, 2022)

• The Power of Narrative conference (March 18-19, 2022)

🌅 Jobs and internships

• Freelance Social Media Specialist, Schmidt Ocean Institute, Remote

• Engagement Editor, Spectrum, New York City, NY

• Climate, Health and Justice Reporter, Inside Climate News, Remote

• Senior Editor, Health & Science, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Philadelphia, PA

• Science communications expert, VIB, Ghent, Belgium

• Asia Community Manager, Climate Tracker, Asia

• Health and Science Editor, Vox Media, Remote

• Climate Editor, Vox Media, Remote

• Communications Assistant, The Stanford Center for Ocean Solutions, Stanford, CA

• Science Writer Intern, Chemistry World, The Royal Society of Chemistry, UK-based

• Staff Writer on Biotechnology, WIRED, UK/US

• More jobs 👉 Science Writing News Roundup #81

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