✍️Science Writing News Roundup #92 (April 25, 2022)

AAAS has announced this year’s cohort of Mass Media Fellows + Earth Day: Here are the environmental stories your audiences care most about.

AAAS has announced this year’s cohort of Mass Media Fellows this week – 28 young scientists who will be placed in newsrooms around the United States for a summer of hands-on immersion in science journalism.

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🪂 Opportunities

• Calls for pitches: Opportunities to write about 1) Health, education, environment, 2) Science in general, 3) Solutions journalism, 4) Southeast Asia + environment, 5) Humor and science, 6) The Mediterranean & biodiversity. Call for applications: Funding for environmental journalists [Bonus content for monthly supporters]

• The US-UK Fulbright Commission in partnership with the Rita Allen Foundation is offering an award for an early-career journalist with a deep knowledge of science, and a passion for public engagement, to play a role in building public awareness of civic science.

STAT @statnews

Applications for The Sharon Begley Science Reporting Fellowship close on April 30! This one-year fellowship is intended for early-career U.S. journalists from racial & ethnic groups underrepresented in the profession. Don't wait! Apply today: buff.ly/3844Adt @KSJatMIT

buff.lySharon Begley-STAT Science Reporting FellowshipThe Sharon Begley Science Reporting Fellowship The Sharon Begley Science Reporting Fellowship was launched in 2021 with the goal of diversifying

🥤 Articles

• What science journalism can’t tell us about Covid-19 deaths.

• Earth Day: Here are the environmental stories your audiences care most about. Today, 43% percent of Americans worry 'a great deal' about climate change, and another 22% worry 'a fair amount' about it.

• A Day in the life of Paul Tullis: Paul has reported from 15 countries on four continents about science, technology, the environment, and their intersections, and has also covered criminal justice, mental health, and more.

• Ukraine at war: what the country’s science writers are doing. Following the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Olha Harmatiy fled with her youngest son to Europe. However, she left her husband, mother and elder son in Lviv. She notes that Ukrainians do not use a capital letter when they write the word Russia.

CJR @CJR

New from @markhertsgaard & @kylepope: “If a point of view is inevitable in journalism, let ours be one that favors defusing this catastrophic threat to our planetary home.”

cjr.orgEarth Day, and the media’s point of view<p>This story originated in the Columbia Journalism Review and is part of “Climate & Democracy,” a series from the global journalism collaboration Covering Climate Now. ON THE FIRST EARTH DAY, in 1970, America’s TV networks were not shy about taking a position on the news of the day. CBS News produc…

André Picard @picardonhealth

🧵Had the pleasure of attending a talk by the inimitable @edyong209 at @UBCJournalism @ubcSPPGA. He’s a superb journalist and just as good a speaker. His insights about #journalism, science and pandemics are remarkable too. #PandemicJournalism /1

🌴 News

• Winners announced for 13th annual DCSWA Newsbrief Award. A comic on clever cockatoos that can open garbage cans and an Instagram post about inequalities facing women in the midst of climate change have won the twelfth annual D.C. Science Writers Association’s Newsbrief Awards.

⛳️ Resources

• Reporter’s toolbox: Newly released greenhouse gas inventory offers local reporting opportunities

SciLine @RealSciLine

#GasPrices are rising. What would it take to make the U.S. less vulnerable to #fossilfuel price shocks? Scientists answer in these quotes for reporters.

sciline.orgShifting to renewables amid surging gas prices - SciLine

🫖 Videos

• Science journalists share what they have learned by covering the Covid-19 pandemic + Tips for reporting on oceans, energy transition, solutions journalism, environmental justice. [Bonus content for monthly supporters]

• The Time is Now: Deciding Our Climate Future

• Best Practices For Communicating Health Data

• Climate change and conflict: First-hand tips on how to tell stories with impact

• The Pandemic in New York City: A Virtual Conversation with Dr. Jay Varma (Science Writers in New York)

• Climate Conversations: Why We Can No Longer Delay On Climate Action

🎨 Events

• Ledes, nut grafs, and how to make readers know why a story should matter to them + Data visualization tips [Bonus content for monthly supporters]

• Newsroom Summit 2022: Science in the Newsroom: How to increase the rigor and critical elements of science journalism (April 26-28, 2022)

• Pathways to Better Science Communication: How We Can Get There (April 27, 2022)

• Spencer Lecture: An Evening with Katharine Hayhoe (April 27, 2022)

• Expanding our Universe: DEI and Science Communication (April 27, 2022)

• How to Cover Carbon Markets (April 28, 2022)

• All We Can Save - The Power of Communication, with Katharine Hayhoe (April 28, 2022)

• Online harassment and abuse of female scientists in the public sphere (April 29, 2022)

• Communicating Your Science: Meet the Reporter (Shaping STEM Research for the General Public) (April 29, 2022)

🏞️ Jobs and internships

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• Communications Intern, UK

• News and Investigations Editor, U.S.-based

• Manager, Communications, CA

• Communications Specialist, U.S.-based

• Staff Writer, NY/DC

• Science Communication & Outreach, UK

• Biotech Reporter, Remote

• Big Oil Reporter, U.S.-based

• Health Fellow, UK

• Healthcare Fellow, Remote

• Health fellow, Remote

• Science Writer and Communications Specialist, TN

• Communications Specialist, DC

• Science Writer, U.S.-based

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SciLine @RealSciLine

SciLine's director and former longtime WaPo science reporter, Rick Weiss, weighs in on a common pitfall for journalists – conflating correlation and causation. Read on for his take on coverage of a new Nature study linking #climatechange + insect biodiversity. #RixTake #scicomm