This multimedia article explores the James Webb Space Telescope’s extensive backstory and profiles scientists working on the $10 billion project. The article earned Quanta Magazine the 2022 Pulitzer Prize in
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“Climate change remains one of the most challenging stories for media to cover well. The sheer magnitude of the problem, and its unrelenting slow burn of destruction, makes it difficult
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“New Boston University–led research has found historically excluded and marginalized Americans may be more vulnerable to inaccurate notions about science due to ‘structural and institutional power dynamics.’” The Brink, Boston
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“This tip sheet outlines some of the many ways researchers can help the news media cover research accurately, starting with the journalists who interview them about their own work.” It
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In this feature for Science magazine, freelance science journalist Joshua Sokol describes how Indigenous Maya are working with Western scholars to understand the ancient Maya astronomy buried by Spanish colonists
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Science Magazine contributing writer Kai Kupferschmidt has “witnessed how social media — and the personalities who populate it — can impact the public’s ability to distinguish facts from fiction. Now,
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“The public often turns to science for accurate health information, which, in an ideal world, would be error free. However, limitations of scientific institutions and scientific processes can sometimes amplify
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“The key to correcting misinformation is to debunk it quickly, and ideally prebunk it before it even sprouts. At the ScienceWriters2022 national meeting in Memphis, journalist Kat Eschner taught attendees
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“In his new book, How America Lost Its Mind, Harvard Kennedy School professor Thomas Patterson charts the dramatic rise in misinformation over the past three decades. On everything from climate
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This statement from the Radio Television Digital News Association (RTDNA) offers guidance to journalists on how to protect against spreading false and misleading information.
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“March 24 was World TB Day, which every year commemorates the anniversary of when scientist Robert Koch announced that he had discovered the Mycobacterium tuberculosis bacteria that causes TB in
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In this article, Tristan Ahtone describes how he has approached harnessing Indigenous frameworks and expertise in covering climate change, as Grist’s editor-at-large working on the Indigenous Affairs desk. He writes:
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“The focus of this issue of Science Editor is on careers and roles in scientific editing and publishing. In 2017, we published a similar special careers-focused issue, and it seemed
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“Amid pending court cases and ballot initiatives, journalistic coverage of medication abortion has never been more crucial. This piece aims to help inform the narrative with scientific evidence.” The article
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Freelance science writer and editor Robin Lloyd’s COVID-19 newsletter, which ran from spring 2020 through fall 2022, regularly shared science writing about the pandemic. The newsletter’s archive offers a wealth
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The COVID Tracking Project was a volunteer organization launched from The Atlantic and dedicated to collecting and publishing data about COVID-19 in the U.S. The organization’s archive of blog posts,
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Katelyn Jetelina is an epidemiologist, public health researcher, and science communicator. Her newsletter started early in the pandemic as a way to deliver COVID-19 updates, and has since expanded to
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This newsletter from the People’s CDC shares news and updates about COVID-19 and related public health issues. It focuses on “the latest information about how COVID-19 is spreading and the
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“Dozens of academic studies spotlight problems in news coverage of obesity. To help journalists reflect on their work and make improvements, we asked seven experts for advice.”
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“Under a federal law, hospital emergency departments must provide appropriate emergency medical treatment to any patients who need it. But now the U.S. Supreme Court is considering a case that
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“Successfully pitching a story to a science editor requires a wide range of skills, from researching their outlet to communicating with them in a professional way. In this practical guide,
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“Writing a good pitch is really tough. Writing a bad one is easy. Editors see the same mistakes over and over again, even from good writers.” Seven editors from a
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Writers and editors at The Open Notebook respond to a question from a reader: “What is a normal amount of time to spend on preparing pitches for magazine feature stories?
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In this article, Tim Herrera (who was, at the time, Smarter Living editor at the New York Times) explains some common do’s and don’t’s of pitching freelance journalism articles. He
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