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  • ComSciCon-Triangle 2026

    "ComSciCon-Triangle 2026 will take place on Saturdays January 17 and January 24, 2026 at the BioLabs NC in Durham, N.C., featuring speakers, panelists and multimedia experts. Attendees can expect a mix of keynote lectures, panels on current scicomm topics, and breakout activities centered on the intersections of art and science. All attendees will participate in

  • DEADLINE: NFPW Professional Communications Contest

    "The NFPW National Communications Contest is open to writers regardless of gender, professional status, or location." Categories include writing, editing, photography, web and social media, and more. Entrants apply at the state level to affiliate organizations in their state; first-place winners from the state-level contest then move to the national level. Work must be published

  • AHCJ Webinar: Building Audience With Local Climate-Health Stories

    "Climate change is often covered as a vast, global crisis, defined by melting ice sheets, stalled international agreements and the persistent grip of fossil fuels. What gets far less attention are the local stories unfolding across the country: clinics adapting to wildfire, counties redesigning emergency response plans for extreme heat, public health responses to vector-borne

  • DEADLINE: CJF Indigenous Health Journalism Fellowship

    "Now in its second year, the Canadian Journalism Foundation's Indigenous Health Journalism Fellowship in partnership with the Canadian Medical Association fellowship is a groundbreaking initiative, aimed at fostering expert reporting on critical health issues affecting Indigenous communities in Canada. Open to Indigenous (First Nations, Inuit, and Métis) journalists working with a publishing partner to support

  • DEADLINE: Pulitzer Prize Books and Journalism Competitions

    The Pulitzer Prizes, established in 1917, are awarded annually in journalism, books, music and drama. Books The recommended entry deadline for books published in the first half of 2025 was extended to Aug 8, 2025 (from July 31). The final deadline for all eligible books published in 2025, including those slated for publication in the

  • CASW Connector Chat: Tips and Tools for Investigative Science Reporting

    Join CASW Connector for a lively virtual chat with top investigative reporters Charles Piller of Science and Liza Gross of Inside Climate News. Piller is the recipient of CASW’s 2025 Victor Cohn Prize for Excellence in Medical Science Reporting. His high-impact reporting has led the National Institutes of Health to suspend a clinical trial and

  • DEADLINE: National Institute for Health Care Management (NIHCM) Awards

    NIHCM's awards "recognize outstanding journalism and policy research that focuses on health care affordability, access and quality, including increasing knowledge of the drivers and impacts of rising health care costs, or identifying solutions to improve health care access and quality." Awards are given annually in the categories: Investigative and general reporting, local media award, television

  • DEADLINE: Rural Revenue Transformation Workshop

    "This event is for news, information and community leaders who are located in and serve rural, low-income and geographically dispersed communities. This experience is two days of hands-on sessions and collaborative activities to workshop solutions for news and information leaders in rural communities. We know that the revenue tactics that may work for newsrooms who

  • DEADLINE: Ferriss – UC Berkeley Psychedelic Journalism Fellowship

    "The Ferriss – UC Berkeley Psychedelic Journalism Fellowship offers ten $10,000 reporting grants per year to journalists reporting in-depth print and audio stories on the science, policy, business and culture of this new era of psychedelics. In addition to underwriting individual stories, the Fellowship aims to establish and nurture a new generation of journalists covering

  • DEADLINE: ABSW Awards

    The annual Association of British Science Writers Awards "are for works published within the UK or Ireland and are intended for British and Irish-based journalists and writers, or those working for audiences in these two countries. Work entered must be accessible to the general public." Opens Jan. 1.

  • DEADLINE: Follow the Carbon, the Money and the Data

    "The Climate Journalism Network Austria is organizing an investigative workshop in Vienna, for journalists based in Europe. "The training provides early- and mid-career journalists with vital skills to investigate the forces behind the climate crisis. Attendees will learn how to track emissions across borders, follow financial flows, examine corporate climate claims, navigate freedom of information

  • The Search for Extraterrestrial Life From a Reporter’s Perspective

    "For millennia, humans have wondered whether life exists beyond Earth. Over the last half-century or so, these musings have evolved from fantasy and speculation into a legitimate scientific endeavor, guided largely by the Drake Equation — a formula that estimates the number of detectable extraterrestrial civilizations in our Milky Way galaxy. Nadia Drake, a science