✍️Science Writing News Roundup #95 (May 9, 2022)
Online science writing course: What makes a good science story?
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🚉Opportunities
Calls for pitches/grants: Write about science for kids, environment, and climate change [Bonus content for monthly supporters]
Science Journalism Summer School returns August 8-12. Participants will learn the ropes of science journalism theory, all while developing multi-media storytelling skills from writing to podcasting, to social media production and freelance story pitching.
Serrapilheira is offering grants to journalists covering science in Brazil.
The Society of Environmental Journalists is accepting proposals for story grants on U.S. public lands.
The USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism's all-expenses-paid 2022 National Fellowship helps journalists report on the health, welfare and well-being of children, youth, families and communities.
🧰Resources and tips
How to protect yourself online + Tips for writing scientific op-ed articles (2020)[Bonus content for monthly supporters]
Online science writing course: What makes a good science story? In this course, Colin Stuart, an award-winning popular science writer, shows you how to get published in major magazines and write book proposals. Learn the best interview techniques, how much a science writer can earn, and see successful feature pitches. (Note: this is an affiliate link/sponsored post)
A guide to tracking source diversity: Tracking the diversity of sources included in media stories is one key tool in journalists’ work to make sure that their stories reflect the communities they cover, particularly with respect to including communities that have historically been underrepresented and marginalized.
Sample script and survey for tracking source diversity: Here is a sample script and demographic questions that reporters can use or adapt when asking sources to provide demographic information as part of a publication’s source-diversity tracking efforts.
🗒️Articles
Opinion: Trolling is taking a toll on science journalism: Science journalists say they face threats of online harassment — and that newsrooms are doing little to protect them.
Explainer: What is a science writer? Common outputs include technical science writing and editing, science journalism, science communication and science marketing/public relations (PR).
Q&A: Karyn Pugliese on small, mighty newsrooms and indigenous climate solutions. Covering Climate Now speaks with Karyn Pugliese, the new executive editor of Canada’s National Observer, a digital news outfit with a sizable audience that has put climate change front-and-center in its coverage.
Behind the Story: Encroaching Forests and Encroaching People. Rainforest Journalism Fund Intern Kymberley Chu spoke with Patchar Duangklad about the power of data storytelling and navigating the complexities of forestry conflict.
🎬Videos
SciComm Lunch & Learn: A Humanities Perspective on Vaccine Communication
Making Every Day Earth Day: How Environmental Journalism is an Investment in Our Planet
🏞️News
2022-23 Taylor/Blakeslee Fellowships help six students plunge into science writing. Each will receive a $5,000 award to support graduate training in science writing. Their selection brings to 184 the number of science writers aided by CASW’s graduate fellowships since 1981.
Meet the science journalist demystifying COVID-19 vaccines and variants: In conversation with Dr. Jackson Ryan, finalist in the 2021 Finkel Foundation Eureka Prize for Long-Form Science Journalism and the 2021 Australian Museum Eureka Prize for Science Journalism.
🍹Events
Science essentials for local reporters (May 10, 2022)
What Comes After Roe v. Wade? (May 11, 2022)
Health Inequities: Diagnosing a major ill for communities of color (May 14, 2022)
Learn about medical and science-related disinformation: Online course for journalists from Central and Eastern Europe (Apply by May 15, 2022)
The Book Proposal Factory, Spring 2022 (May 17, 2022)
From Academic Writing to Popular Science w/ Physicist & Author Suzie Sheehy (May 17, 2022)
(2022 Science Writers' Boot Camp) HERstory of Medicine: Research and Clinical Advancements in Women's Health (June 6, 2022)
LinkedIn for Journalists June Event (June 6, 2022)
📣Jobs and internships
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Journalism internship, London, UK
Science communicator internship, Remote
News Editor, Remote, US-based
Deputy editor, Remote
Content Specialist, US-based
News Editor, DC
Head of Editorial, DC
Senior Editor, Sydney or London
Fellowship Editor, Remote
Reporter, NY
Communications Manager, CA
Communications Associate, CA
Writer, Remote
Editor, Climate Change, FL
Reporters/Columnists, DC
Science Writer, UK-based
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