George Johnson, the author of nine books, is a former reporter and editor at The New York Times. He won a AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Award in 2014 for this
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Anna Maria Barry-Jester wrote this piece while on the staff of the data-driven news site FiveThirtyEight where she covered public health, immigration, food, and science. This annotation was done by
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Amy Maxmen’s story, which recounts how anthropologists worked with aid workers and residents to reconcile management of Ebola patients with the culture’s customs, won NASW’s Science in Society Award in
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When a Chinese scientist named He Jiankui revealed in November 2018 that twin babies had been born with genes he had edited using CRISPR gene-editing technology, science reporters jumped on
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When a Chinese scientist named He Jiankui revealed in November 2018 that twin babies had been born with genes he had edited using CRISPR gene-editing technology, science reporters jumped on
View from Storygram: Antonio Regalado’s “Exclusive: Chinese scientists are creating CRISPR babies”
Joshua Sokol is a freelance writer based in Boston. His story introduces readers to the aging victims of the most enduring case of mercury poisoning in the world, which happened
View from Storygram: Joshua Sokol’s “Something in the water: Life after mercury poisoning”
Cally Carswell, a contributing editor at High Country News, won NASW’s Science in Society Award for science reporting for a local or regional market in 2014 for this tale of
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Maria Konnikova is the author of two New York Times bestsellers and a contributing writer for The New Yorker. Her story about the up-and-coming science of neurogastronomy (the study of
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Natalie Wolchover is a physics writer. She won the Evert Clark/Seth Payne award for young science journalists in 2016 for a series of articles in Quanta magazine, including this profile
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Sarah Wild has written about astronomy, particle physics, and everything in between, and she’s published two books about science in South Africa. Her story about identifying anonymous bodies in South
View from Storygram: Sarah Wild’s “Bones specialists try to prise secrets from the veld bodies”
“The Science Writers’ Handbook and its spinoff titles, focused on essays and investigative reporting, have become must-read guides for all science writers. Whether you’re a journalist, communicator, educator or scientist,
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The Oxford Handbook on the Science of Science Communication contains 47 essays by 57 leading scholars organized into six sections that address: -the need for a science of science communication
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Veteran science journalist Carl Zimmer shares notes from a class called “Writing about Science, Medicine, and the Environment,” which he has taught for several years at Yale. Zimmer covers the
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Science communicator and consultant Paige Brown Jarreau offers 10 tips for scientists and students to break into science communication, whether you want to transition into science communication as a career
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In this white paper, the Science Literacy Foundation redefines science literacy for the 21st century, mapping out the challenges and opportunities ahead. “In the SLF view, being scientifically literate means
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This guide offers tips for scientists on how to use social media to network and in your science outreach efforts. It includes guides to specific platforms, as well as tips
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This checklist from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) offers tips, advice, and strategies on how to make health information accessible to a broad range of people — from scientists
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An exploration of millennials’ science media consumption habits, curiosity about science, and cultural beliefs has revealed some useful insights for engaging this generation when it comes to science. The series
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At the 2023 Association of Health Care Journalists conference in St. Louis, Missouri, Ph.D. candidate Maya Gosztyla provided an overview of literature mapping tools, RSS feeds, research management software and
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Blog post about finding science communication opportunities, focused on the process of moving from research to scicomm. “All of the opportunities below are either targeted specifically at PhD students or
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This 2002 issue of Nieman Reports focuses on issues facing science journalism, including a variety of articles on various topics. “Those who report on science have never been better prepared
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“Designed to help the novice scientist get started with science communication, this unique guide begins with a short history of science communication before discussing the design and delivery of an
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The KSJ Science Editing Handbook, a product of the Knight Science Journalism Fellowship at MIT, offers practical tips for editors. Written by editors from a variety of science-focused publications, the
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“A Tactical Guide to Science Journalism brings together award-winning journalists from around the world to share fascinating tales of science and how it works and to provide guidance into reporting
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Explaining Research offers in-depth guidance for researchers on how to communicate their work. It includes advice on how to develop a communication “strategy of synergy”; give compelling talks; build a
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