Congratulations to Mariette DiChristina, Cristine Russell, and Morris A. (Bud) Ward, three longtime members of NASW who have been elected as fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and will be honored next month during the AAAS Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C. Read the AAAS press release here.

What's the future of science journalism? Here's a take from Wired UK magazine editor David Rowan, speaking to the Dutch Association of Science Journalists. An excerpt: "You're now competing with the internet, and you will only survive if you can add value to what blogs and aggregators and open-access journals offer in a way that somebody, somehow, is willing to finance." Read the rest here.

Winners of the 2010 Science in Society Journalism Awards are Susan Cohen and Christine Cosgrove for their book "Normal at Any Cost: Tall Girls, Short Boys, and the Medical Industry's Quest to Manipulate Height," Martha Mendoza and Margie Mason for their Associated Press series "When Drugs Stop Working," Charles Duhigg for his New York Times series "Toxic Waters," and J. Madeleine Nash for her article "Bring in the Cows," which appeared in High Country News.

DeLene Beeland says she feels "like roadkill on the freelancing highway" after her recent experience with a national conservation magazine. Read the sanitized details in her public blog entry and (NASW members only) find out who was on the other end of the transaction in the Words' Worth market database.