Tip Sheet: Co-Creating Science Stories With Your Audience
On Sunday, November 8, 2024, CASW Connector hosted a hybrid session at the ScienceWriters2024 meeting that introduced science writers to audience engagement practices. The CASW team co-created the session itself with its audience, using an online survey and posterboards at the meeting to collect input from ScienceWriters2024 attendees about their experience talking to and engaging with their readers, as well as their questions about audience engagement.
The session included brief presentations from several speakers with experience in reporting projects informed by their audiences. Breakout groups gave attendees the opportunity to discuss different aspects of engagement. The session was live-streamed for virtual participants.
Speakers included:
- Celeste LeCompte, CASW board member and independent consultant
- Betsy Ladyzhets, CASW Connector community manager and editor at The Sick Times
- Jena Brooker, environment and food reporter at BridgeDetroit
- Melba Newsome, independent journalist and professor at Wake Forest University
- Kelly Kauffman, engagement journalist at MuckRock
- Dillon Bergin, data reporter at MuckRock
Check out the link for the presentations and report-backs from the breakout sessions.