✨ Opportunities
Guiding principles for science journalism: Take this survey and add your perspective to the formation of Guiding Principles for Science Journalism.
The application for Joan Shorenstein fellowships for Fall 2022 and Spring 2023 is now open. The purpose of the fellowship program is to advance research in the field of media, politics and public policy; facilitate a dialogue among journalists, scholars, policymakers and students; and provide an opportunity for reflection.
Solutions reporting grant: call for applications: This $250 grant is open to reporters from across the Asia region.
🔮 Articles
“We’re in a storytelling crisis”: Advice for writing on nuclear issues, from the author of “Fallout” (2020) The story of John Hersey and Hiroshima provides lessons about finding ways to help readers and citizens find personal agency in affecting nuclear outcomes. Hersey showed how a sole journalist…basically changed the perception of nuclear weapons overnight.
Defending against disinformation: Just as our bodies can build resistance to viral attacks, it’s possible our minds can cultivate defenses against disinformation.
Journalists tend to understate — not exaggerate — scientific findings, study finds. The study compared paper abstracts with corresponding news articles and found that journalists generally expressed more uncertainty in their writing.
A day in the life of Verah Okeyo: As a midwife’s daughter who was born and bred in rural areas, Verah’s reporting focuses on global health—specifically maternal and child health, infectious diseases, and underrepresented communities.
🪂 Resources
NTI Nuclear Narrative and Audience Research. How do we connect nuclear threats with what is most relevant and deeply meaningful in people’s daily lives? In 2021, the Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI), pulled together an interdisciplinary team to help uncover how the larger public might be meaningfully engaged and activated around the existing nuclear threat. What follows is a deep look into the minds of Americans and a path forward to creating a world free of nuclear threats.
A primer on nuclear weapons. In this volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series, Mark Wolverton offers a primer on nuclear weapons, from the science of fission and fusion to the pursuit of mutual assured destruction, the SALT and START agreements, and the Bomb in pop culture.
Telling Your Nuclear Story: In this webinar (click here to watch the video and click here to view the presentations), international experts present good practices to follow when communicating about nuclear power.
Expert reaction to Russian attacks at the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant.
Long COVID: An explainer and research roundup. Researchers are working to better understand the physical and mental health problems some people can experience long after first getting infected with COVID-19. Here’s what's known so far about the collection of symptoms known as long COVID.
🧵 Videos
Climate Solutions from the Frontlines of Environmental Justice
Covering Nuclear Issues: A workshop for journalists. The Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard hosted an intensive training workshop for journalists on covering nuclear issues on March 1-3, 2018. The goal was to bring together a diverse group of reporters, academics, researchers and practitioners in order to help journalists deepen their reporting skills and expand their thinking around nuclear issues, which are increasingly in the news.
🗺️ Events
Uproot Project Panel: Investigative Environmental Journalism (March 9, 2022)
Climate Central Workshop: Reporting on Sea Level Rise and Coastal Flood Risk (March 9, 2022)
The Power of Narrative conference (March 18-19, 2022)
Telling everyday people's science stories (March 22, 2022)
How to Break Into Content Strategy (March 29, 2022)
The Society of Environmental Journalists Annual Conference (March 30-April 3, Houston, Texas)
📜 Jobs and internships
Podcast & Storytelling Intern, AGU, Washington, DC
Climate Justice Fellow, High Country News, US-based
Communications Assistant, ASAPbio, Remote
Senior Reporter, Features (Climate & Environmental Justice), Prism, US-based
Science Writing & Communication Instructor, The MIT Office of Engineering Outreach Programs, Part-Time, Remote
Education Director, The Story Collider, US-based
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