✍️Science Writing News Roundup #85 (March 20, 2022)
New ways to record conversations + Diversify your visuals
Reporter Nights at SPS: Science Journalism in the Time of COVID-19. Claudia Dreifus interviews a panel of top science editors and reporters on their career paths, as well as the highlights and challenges of their day-to-day work.
🪶 Opportunities
🧱 Resources
Living at the nuclear brink: What are nuclear weapons and why were they developed? What has been done, and can be done, about nuclear dangers?
Diversify your visuals: Inclusivity begins with imagery. This post focuses on resources for expanding the diversity of the images you use.
How newsroom art departments keep illustrating coronavirus stories. How do you keep covering one of the most important stories of our time when the story keeps revolving around the same virus?
New ways to record conversations: Here are some recording apps that streamline interviewing.
🔭 Videos
SciComm Writing 101 - Intro to Science Writing. In this first installment of the series, Eleanor Cummins will cover the fundamentals: an introduction to types of science stories, finding a news "peg," and developing a unique "angle."
Questions a Science Journalist Asks When Reading New Research. Join science journalist Melinda Wenner Moyer as she talks about the questions she asks when reading new research.
War, Oil, and Crimes: Reporting the New Climate Story. Russia’s war on Ukraine poses sweeping challenges, and opportunities, for climate reporting.
The Best Climate Science You Haven’t Heard. In February, CCNow put on a webinar "The Best Climate Science You've Never Heard Of", which covered some very important and overlooked science from a recent IPCC report. Mark Hertsgaard recently did a follow up interview with Facing Future TV on this topic.
🧵 Articles
Introducing cinematic scientific visualization: A new frontier in science communication. A cinematic presentation of scientific data can capture public attention and interest in complex science topics in this current age of rapidly growing media consumption.
Poynter researcher offers tips for COVID-19 reporting and verifying data. Caryn Baird walks reporters through techniques to refine internet searches, organize website bookmarks, ferret out misinformation and verify the accuracy of information like photographs found during internet searches.
A successful investigative career and a vision led Jim Morris to take a risk. Jim Morris talks about launching a nonprofit investigative news outlet (Public Health Watch) during a pandemic.
Journalists grapple with the American energy crisis. For the foreseeable future, every government decision related to fossil fuels and clean energy carries direct implications for our collective climate fortunes.
🖼️ Events
Kavli Conversations on Science Communication | Animating Science: Design and Motion in STEM Storytelling (March 21, 2022)
Connections, Conversations and Science Communication – The future of public trust in times of uncertainty (March 21-28, 2022)
Telling everyday people's science stories (March 22, 2022)
Media briefing: The pandemic’s impacts on parents (March 22, 2022)
Finding and working with agents...or not (March 23, 2022)
SCIENCE TALK '22 (March 23-25, 2022)
Storylines for 2022: Where Does Climate Journalism Hit the Wall? (March 24, 2022)
How to Break Into Content Strategy (March 29, 2022)
To help journalists strengthen their climate coverage, the Asian Development Bank and the Thomson Reuters Foundation are hosting a webinar on ‘Building Resilience: Climate Crises and Green Transition’ (March 29, 2022)
The Society of Environmental Journalists Annual Conference (March 30-April 3, Houston, Texas)
Who Gets to Speak in News Coverage? Solidarity Reporting on Trans Issues (March 31, 2022)
📡 Jobs and internships
Digital Content Creator/Writer, MilliporeSigma, US-based
Science Writer, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT
Contributing Editor, The University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Communications Officer, Royal Geographical Society, London, UK
Editorial Assistant, Sifted, UK
Deeptech reporter, Sifted, Remote, Europe
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