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A panel of freelance journalists including moderators Rose Eveleth and Rachel Nuwer, and Charles Choi, Virginia Hughes, and Melinda Wenner Moyer reviewed results from a 2013 survey of science writers.

An image of a man with pink scars running up and down the inside of his arm flits across the screen. A used heroin needle rests on the sink next to him. “Addiction is one of the most stigmatized and not spoken about complications,” said Cassie Rodenberg, a Scientific American blogger and science teacher at a South Bronx middle school. “These are the people who are ignored.”

The ScienceWriters2013 Awards Gala on Saturday night celebrated some of the finest science journalism of the past year. Winners represented the whole range of media, from book to blog to radio. Science in Society Journalism Awards were given in five categories: book, science reporting, longform science reporting, science reporting for a local or regional market, and commentary and opinion.