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  • Jan 11 2006

    Apply now for Mentoring Program at AAAS

    Are you a student or young science writer looking for guidance on how veteran science writers do their jobs? Here's a chance to find out for yourself through the NASW Mentoring at AAAS Program, which matches graduate science writing students and professionals who've been on the science beat for two years or less with established science journalists and public information officers for a day during the AAAS Annual Meeting.

  • Jan 4 2006

    Time to enter Science-in-Society awards

    February 1 is the deadline for entering NASW's Science-in-Society awards competition, honoring and encouraging outstanding investigative and interpretive reporting about the sciences and their impact for good and ill. Entries must have been published or broadcast in newspapers, magazines, broadcast (television or radio), books and the web between June 1, 2004, and Dec. 31, 2005. Details.

  • Jan 3 2006

    Join NASW in Baltimore this October

    Make plans now to attend NASW's annual meeting in Baltimore, Oct. 27-31, 2006. Program information and registration will be available in August.

  • Jan 1 2006

    Institutes for Journalism & Natural Resources (IJNR)

    IJNR will conduct three expedition-style fellowship programs for journalists during 2006. All three programs will emphasize issues of energy, climate, water and rural development. The expeditions will explore parts of eastern Oregon and Washington (Blue Mountains Institute in May), Michigan and Wisconsin (Great Waters Institute in July) and Wyoming-Colorado-Utah (Energy Country Institute in September). On each trip, journalists will examine conditions and practices of forests, fisheries, farms and energy-production sites.

  • Jan 1 2006

    Arthur F. Burns Fellowship Program

    American print and broadcast journalists have until March 1 to apply for a two-month professional exchange program in Germany. Successful applicants will spend August and September living, working and reporting for their home and host news organizations from across the Atlantic.

    The Arthur F. Burns Fellowship Program grants ten U.S. and ten German journalists a $5,000 living stipend while they are abroad, along with airfare and lodging in Washington, D.C. for a one-week orientation session in July. U.S.

  • Dec 31 2005

    Rate increase for NASW job ads

    Starting Jan. 1, 2006, advertisements on NASW's online jobs service, NASW-jobs, are $100 for full-time and part-time permanent positions, or contract jobs of more than six months' duration. Ads for freelance assignments remain free. All postings are archived on the NASW member web site after being sent via e-mail to the almost 1,000 NASW-jobs subscribers. To place an ad, send it in an email to cybrarian@nasw.org with a copy to diane@nasw.org and include billing information and the work site, if applicable.

  • Dec 23 2005

    2006 NASW Internship Fair

    NASW student members looking for great internships, or news and science organizations looking for top-flight interns should sign on for the 2006 NASW Internship Fair. The fair will be held Saturday, Feb. 18 from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. at the 2006 AAAS meeting in St. Louis at the Renaissance Grand Hotel, Landmark 5.

  • Dec 22 2005

    2006 NASW Internship Fair

    NASW student members looking for great internships, or news and science organizations looking for top-flight interns should sign on for the 2006 NASW Internship Fair. The fair will be held Saturday, Feb. 18 from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. at the 2006 AAAS meeting in St. Louis at the Renaissance Grand Hotel, Landmark 5.

  • Dec 6 2005

    Mentoring at AAAS

    The NASW Education Committee will again sponsor the annual "Mentoring at AAAS" program in February, and we need your help. The program matches a veteran journalist or public information officer with a novice science writer or a student in a graduate science writing program. For 2006, the program will be offered at the AAAS annual meeting in St. Louis. (Feb. 16-20).

  • Dec 5 2005

    Mentoring at AAAS

    The NASW Education Committee will again sponsor the annual "Mentoring at AAAS" program in February, and we need your help. The program matches a veteran journalist or public information officer with a novice science writer or a student in a graduate science writing program. For 2006, the program will be offered at the AAAS annual meeting in St. Louis. (Feb. 16-20).