Register now for the free May 8 SciWriRoundtable: Reporting in challenging free speech environments
NASW members are invited to register for the upcoming, free #SciWriRoundtable webinar “Reporting in challenging free speech environments” scheduled for Thursday, May 8, at 11 a.m. Eastern.
Journalists from around the world will discuss their experiences working under constraints on press freedom. They will offer lessons and tips on news gathering in difficult circumstances, how to access controlled information and data, and ways to enhance safety and security for sources and journalists. Their experiences in various countries can offer insights, guidance and tools for journalists confronting these constraints anew.
Science Writers Roundtable: Reporting in challenging free speech environments
Presented by the NASW Board of Directors
Date: Thursday, May 8, 2025
Start time: 11 a.m. Eastern / 8 a.m. Pacific
Event registration link: https://sciencewriters-org.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_t6ogoX1sQPS-oy0vx5cKhA
Registration is free and open to all NASW members.
This event will not be recorded.
Moderators:
Science
Reelected to his third term on the NASW Board, Rodrigo is a past recipient of the NASW Diversity Summer Fellowship. Paying forward his experience, Rodrigo has served as past co-chair of the NASW Diversity Committee and helped launch the inaugural Mid-Career Mentoring Program via the NASW Journalism Committee. His bylines have also appeared in The New York Times, Nature Medicine, El País, and other outlets, and is editorial director of The Open Notebook en Español. He is based in Mexico City.
Chemical & Engineering News
Priyanka moved from India to the United States in 2018 to pursue a career in science journalism. Her bylines have appeared in the New York Times, Scientific American, and National Geographic, in addition to covering the COVID-19 pandemic and other health and medicine stories as National Geographic’s resident reporter.
Invited speakers:
Voice of America (retired)
Carol Guensburg spent a decade as an editor at the Voice of America working in international news, including its Latin America and Africa divisions. She was the associate standards editor when she retired last year. Before the VOA, Carol edited and reported for Scripps Howard News Service’s Washington bureau. Earlier, she worked in newspapers, was founding director of a University of Maryland journalism fellowship program and did contract editing and reporting for NPR.
Direkt36
András Pethő is co-founder and executive director of Direkt36, an investigative journalism center in Hungary that is one of the few not controlled by pro-government forces or other political interest groups. Previously, Andras was a senior editor for the Hungarian news site Origo, worked for the BBC World Service in London, and was an investigative reporter at The Washington Post. He contributed to several international reporting projects, including The Panama Papers and the Pegasus Project. He has been a World Press Institute fellow, a Humphrey fellow at the University of Maryland, and a Nieman fellow at Harvard University.
Freelance
Dyna Rochmyaningsih is a science journalist from South Sumatra in Indonesia. Her work has been published by Science Magazine, Mongabay, Nature, The Christian Science Monitor, Undark, etc. Her main topics have been environmental crises, science suppression, and science policy.
#SciWriRoundtable
Curated by the Board of the National Association of Science Writers, the Science Writers Roundtable series is the organization’s main virtual events series dissecting and responding to the evergreen and emerging forces that shape the business of science news. Each event is moderated by an NASW Board Member in conversation among colleagues with experience and expertise relevant to journalists, writers, PIOs, and other communicators. No matter your role and identity within the science writing enterprise, we hope you will take away invaluable insights and information from our #SciWriRoundtable to become a more prepared, better equipped professional, educator, trainee, leader, or ally.
Founded in 1934 with a mission to fight for the free flow of science news, NASW is an organization of ~2,400 professional journalists, authors, editors, producers, public information officers, students and people who write and produce material intended to inform the public about science, health, engineering, and technology. To learn more, visit www.nasw.org and follow NASW on LinkedIn and Bluesky.
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