Geeta Anand, a New York-based senior special writer for the Wall Street Journal's investigative group, has been awarded the 2007 Victor Cohn Prize for Excellence in Medical Science Reporting for a powerful series of exhaustively reported stories displaying extraordinary narrative technique, emotional power, and sharp, intelligent analysis.
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The winners of the 2007 Science-in-Society Journalism Awards, sponsored by the National Association of Science Writers are: Nicholas Wade for his book Before the Dawn: Recovering the Lost History of Our Ancestors (Penguin), Kenneth Weiss and Usha Lee McFarling for their Los Angeles Times series "Altered Oceans," and David Sington for his documentary Dimming the Sun, which appeared on PBS's NOVA television series.
We are pleased to announce that the last phase of the NASW web site redesign is complete. This phase moved our member database to a new computer system and revamped the behind-the-scenes software that allows members to log in to the NASW member web pages. Read on for details about the site's new features.
The winner of the 2007 Evert Clark/Seth Payne Award, an annual prize for young science journalists, is Jia-Rui Chong. A staff writer at The Los Angeles Times, Chong received the award and its $1000 prize for four stories: "Badminton World Isn't Smiling for These Birdies;" "Alaska villagers living in bird flu's flight path;" "Book with a buried treasure;" and "First warmer, then sicker."
Maybe it's just the magic of Oz, a land where the laid-back effervescence of the natives is contagious and a new multiculturalism has pasta topping pasties and tall-blacks almost beating out beer. No matter the reason — or what was brewed with the coffee — the result was the Fifth World Conference of Science Journalists held in Melbourne, Australia, April 16-20.
If you've made it this far, you must have already received your new NASW web site password and used it with success. The new passwords are part of a complete overhaul of our membership database and web site authentication system.
We have three types of fellowships available for travel to this year's combined meeting in Spokane, Washington. Assistance is available for students, freelancers, and a subset of staff journalists.
NASW is now implementing the final phase of its web site redesign and revamping several features of its members web site.
During this transition, you will be unable to register for a new web site user name and password, change your password, or create/change your NASW.org email alias. Other functions, including personal web pages and listserv subscriptions, should not be affected, and you will continue to have access to the member web site using your current user name and password. Lost passwords cannot be recovered or reset until the transition is complete.
Our current schedule calls for this transition to be completed in early July. In the meantime, please direct any questions to NASW cybrarian Russell Clemings.
Earl Ubell, 80, a pioneer among science and health writers in America and a former president of NASW, has died. Prominent in the emerging scientific writing community in the 1950s and early 1960s, Mr. Ubell help lay the foundations of our craft during a long, distinguished career at The New York Herald Tribune, CBS and NBC News. Among his many honors, he received the Lasker Medical Journalism Award, the AAAS science wriitng award and several Emmies. He was president of the National Association of Science Writers in 1960 and 1961. For a rare glimpse of how Earl Ubell reported on complex technical topics in 1950 at the dawn of the television era, follow this link to the video vaults of WGBH. A memorial service will be held in New York on Friday, July 13, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., at the CUNY School of Journalism, 230 W. 41 St., 3rd floor.