Product and design thinking: These two techniques can help your science writing business
Are you struggling to please your writing clients and failing to get repeat business? If so, product and design thinking may help your business boom.
Event coverage
Coverage begins in 2006 for the ScienceWriters meeting and 2009 for the AAAS meeting. To see programs for past ScienceWriters meetings, go to the ScienceWriters meeting site.
How (and why) to pitch a story that happened 100 years ago
The final day of ScienceWriters2021 (#SciWri21) brought a new perspective on science writing, focusing on the history of science in a session titled “How (and Why) to Pitch a 100 Year Old Story."
When editors and scientists meet: communicating science without dumbing it down
The challenges associated with getting scientists to write and talk to a non-expert audience were discussed in the “Editing experts: How to help scientists meet journalism standards" panel at the ScienceWriters2021 Conference.
Using data to drive stories
At the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, a small team sought to track the virus’ spread across the United States by documenting testing rates. Since April, The COVID Tracking Project has grown to hundreds of volunteers that compile state-level COVID-19 data trends each day.
Science writers urged to tell stories that include Indigenous perspectives
Science, much like history, is rooted in colonialism. To reckon with this, Indigenous scientists and science writers are calling on non-native science writers to amplify Indigenous voices and decolonize science.
The delicate art of covering sexual harassment in academia
A ScienceWriters2020 session titled “Investigating sexual harassment in science," probed the responsibilities of journalists in exposing such cases to the public eye.
Investigating and covering emerging, controversial and contested disease stories
“How do you report on [diseases] where a lot of the tools that are often available to us as science writers, like the published scientific literature, are just not there?” asked Ed Yong, a science journalist for The Atlantic. Yong posed the question at the start of the ScienceWriters2020 session "Covering Emerging, Controversial, and Contested Disease."
Funding for all: The inside scoop on grants and fellowships
Wherever you are in your science journalism career, fellowships and grants can give you the resources to pursue a passion project. But what does it take to get them? A session at ScienceWriters2020 gathered journalists and fellowship coordinators to answer commonly asked questions about grants and fellowships.
From Ideas to Action: #SciWri20 plenaries result in diversity resources
With racial injustices in the United States as a backdrop, the opening plenary at the ScienceWriters2020 conference challenged science communicators to confront the lack of diversity in our field.