✍️Science Writing News Roundup #96 (May 13, 2022)
Covering mysterious hepatitis in kids + Tips and resources for pitching development stories + So you want to be an editor?
This 10-year-old online science magazine just won its first Pulitzer. Meet Quanta Magazine, which won ‘for coverage that revealed the complexities of building the James Webb Space Telescope’ (Image via Quanta/Poynter)
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🗺️ Opportunities
Calls for pitches: Write about 1) mental health and 2) climate change. [Bonus content for monthly supporters]
The Solutions Journalism Network is recruiting US journalists with a demonstrated interest in covering climate or the environment to join a Climate Change Cohort, running from July 2022 to July 2023.
Request an interview with Dr. Marlene Schwartz about changes coming to school meals in the US.
🔔 Resources and tips
Covering mysterious hepatitis in kids + Tips and resources for pitching development stories + So you want to be an editor? [Bonus content for monthly supporters]
From COVID-19 to climate: helping journalists understand science. In this episode of Future of Journalism, Rasmus Nielsen speaks to Fiona Fox, who has attempted to bridge the gap between science and journalism.
Tips for freelancers — from ideas to rewrites and beyond. At the “How to be your own copy editor (and advocate),” panel at Health Journalism 2022 in Austin, editors and successful freelancers shared tips in a session that evolved into a broader conversation between the panel and the audience.
Climate Tracker and Earth Journalism Network Masterclass on Climate and Water: Join a team of 14 journalists from the Philippines, Malaysia, and Indonesia to engage in training and publishing about climate change and water issues in their country/region.
Internews’ Earth Journalism Network (EJN) invites journalists to join a media workshop on the prospects and challenges of renewable energy in India.
🖥️ Articles
Getting personal: When and how to write yourself into your story. Adela Wu writes about when and how to include your personal experiences and perspectives in your story. “A first-person perspective can be a potent tool to make science stories more engaging or relatable, or to pack a bigger emotional punch,” Adela writes.
Communicating science: Researchers share their fears and tips. Nearly half of researchers responding to a recent survey said that politicization of science has made them lose interest in communicating with the media.
What the science on gender-affirming care for transgender kids really shows: Laws that ban gender-affirming treatment ignore the wealth of research demonstrating its benefits for trans people’s health.
🔖 Videos
What comes after Roe v. Wade? Abortion is arguably the most polarizing issue in the United States. As the country awaits a Supreme Court ruling on Roe v. Wade in the coming months, legislators are flooding statehouses with restrictive bills in hopes that federally protected abortion rights will soon be gone.
👏 News
📅 Events
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 Growing Crisis In Our Oceans: A Virtual Conversation with Dr. Drew Harvell (May 16, 2022)
The Book Proposal Factory, Spring 2022 (May 17, 2022)
From Academic Writing to Popular Science w/ Physicist & Author Suzie Sheehy (May 17, 2022)
LinkedIn for Journalists June Event (Apply by May 19, 2022)
📰 Jobs and internships
Digital Producer and Editorial Coordinator, Knowable Magazine, US-based
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