The city of Columbus and The Ohio State University are preparing to welcome you to ScienceWriters2014, Oct. 17-21. There’s a lot to look forward to: NASW workshops, awards reception, annual NASW business meeting, lunch with a scientist, CASW’s New Horizons in Science briefings, and after-meeting field trips and tours. From the Spring 2014 ScienceWriters.
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The first conference reports from travel fellowship winners at ScienceWriters2013 have now been posted on our past events page. Sessions covered so far include "Online and offline tools for mastering your workflow," and "Rising above the noise: Using statistics-based reporting." We'll have more reports and videos in coming days. Also, if you have photos to donate (with credit) to our online albums, please send them to cybrarian@nasw.org.
Congratulations to the twenty NASW travel fellows selected for a grant to attend ScienceWriters2013 Nov. 1-5 in Gainesville, Florida. Check the full post for a list of recipients. Thank you to all who applied. We had a record setting number of applications.
Full program and schedule information for ScienceWriters2013 is now live at sciencewriters2013.org.
We are pleased to announce that NASW is providing over $20,000 in travel fellowship support for attendance at ScienceWriters2013, November 1-5 in Gainesville, Florida. Applications due September 12. Read on for details and visit sciencewriters2013.org for full information on the meeting.
On July 11, 2012, an investigation I had worked on for approximately six months appeared simultaneously on TheAtlantic.com, Good Morning America, and ABC News’ World News Tonight. I am a freelancer. If you know anything about the freelance marketplace, you’ll spot at once that those two sentences don’t go together.
What do you do if you can't get back to New York from ScienceWriters2012 because of Frankenstorm? If you're on the staff of Scientific American, you set up shop in Raleigh and broadcast The Science of Hurricane Sandy Liveblog from your temporary quarters: "We’re trapped in Raleigh, North Carolina, thanks to Sandy. We have founded Scientific American‘s first-ever Raleigh bureau and will be live-blogging on the storm and answering your storm science questions."
Reports are coming in quickly from the ScienceWriters2012 conference in Raleigh, N.C.. You can read the first reports on our conference reports page. They include "Do PIOs need science journalists any more?" and "Writing science ebooks in the real world." More reports will be posted in coming days, along with photos from conference events. Also, it's time to start thinking about ScienceWriters2013.
A two-stop tour of UNC-Chapel Hill’s nanotechnology research and a visit to see non-invasive, no-harm research protocols at the Duke Lemur Center are among today's highlights at "a meeting for science writers, by science writers." If you are unable to attend, you can follow the Twitter hashtag #sciwri12 and watch this space in coming days for further reports. The conference runs through Tuesday and we'll post reports as they are received.
What's a Pitch Slam? It's an event at which writers have 60 seconds to impress a panel of editors with their story ideas, and, if they succeed, win an assignment. It's among the weekend's highlights at ScienceWriters2012 in Raleigh, N.C.. Session organizer Jeanne Erdmann offers some tips for would-be pitchers on The Open Notebook site: "Editors love a good pitch, and they love meeting new writers who can deliver a tantalizing story idea."