✍️Science Writing News Roundup #99 (May 28, 2022)
Calls for pitches + How to include diverse voices in your science stories + How to report on pre-prints.
Hold the Line: Reporting without Phone or Internet Access. One way to get the testimonies of potentially important sources who don’t own phones or are unreachable online is to get in touch with people who have worked with them in the past—then take it from there.
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🖥️Opportunities
Calls for pitches: Write about physics, science in general, health, abortion, climate, environment, and solutions stories in Europe. + Funding for science writers in the UK [Bonus content for monthly supporters]
Journalism and climate change: how to tell the story right? This year’s ESMH Summer School offers journalists a unique opportunity to gain insight in what the EU is doing in the field of climate change, meet prominent science journalists covering environmental topics and learn from their experience.
🔋Resources
Tips for reporting on 1) monkeypox, 2) suicide, and 3) gun violence as a health crisis + How to include diverse voices in your science stories + How to report on pre-prints + How to be a better environmental journalist [Bonus content for monthly supporters]
New ‘Food & Water’ Climate Reporting Guide: This reporting guide is intended to help journalists everywhere provide coverage of the climate connections to food and water.
🔓Videos
🗨️Articles
The supply and demand of news during COVID-19 and assessment of questionable sources production. Misinformation threatens our societies, but little is known about how the production of news by unreliable sources relates to supply and demand dynamics.
For Online News Association, the thorny ethics of partnering with 3M. Does the ONA’s “3M Truth in Science Award” imply that journalists and chemical companies are interested in telling the same story?
🛤️Events
Reimagining Science Communication in the COVID Era and Beyond: The 5th National Academies Science Communication Colloquium (June 1, 2 and 6, 2022)
Understanding the media: A starter guide for scientists (June 2, 2022)
Mongabay's Environmental Data Journalism Webinar (June 2, 2022)
The West Coast Climate Crisis Symposium (June 4, 2022)
2022 Science Writers' Boot Camp. HERstory of Medicine: Research and Clinical Advancements in Women's Health (June 6, 2022)
Beyond the hype: The inside story of science's biggest media controversies (June 7, 2022)
One Health/One Planet: Exploring the Intersection of Climate Change and Infectious Disease (June 7, 2022)
Investigating High-Consequence Biological Events of Unknown Origin (June 7, 2022)
Interconnected: Reporting the Climate Crisis (June 9-10, 2022)
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Science Writer/Editor, NY
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Reporter, Energy, VA
Climate Reporter, UK
Health Editor, GA
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