What follows should not be viewed as a dissent of the PIO Committee letter of support for the amendment on officer qualifications or of the proposal to amend officer qualifications. It is an analysis of how NASW operations could be affected if non-journalists were to serve as officers.
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Curious about who we are and what your fellow members think? Check out the 3-page spread of membership survey results in this sneak peek excerpt from the ScienceWriters Fall issue.
At NASW's annual business meeting on October 13, members will have the opportunity to vote on two proposed amendments. Check your inboxes for an online proxy invitation if you cannot attend in person. Read more for details.
NASW student members looking for great internships, or news and science organizations looking for top interns should plan to attend the 2019 NASW Internship Fair.
The National Association of Science Writers (NASW) is again sponsoring several exciting programs for student journalists during the AAAS meeting, being held next in Washington, D.C.
In the late 1800s, US consumers unwittingly bought diluted and artificially whitened milk, and canned peas and beans greened with copper sulfate. Adulterated butter, meat, and other foods sometimes proved fatal. In The Poison Squad: One Chemist’s Single-Minded Crusade for Food Safety at the Turn of the Twentieth Century, Deborah Blum chronicles the birth of federal consumer protection.
A majority of the current NASW Board members issue a statement on one of this fall's proposed amendments.
Congratulations to recipients of the ScienceWriters2018 travel grants. We're excited to welcome 35 travel fellows to Washington, D.C. in just a few weeks. Read more to meet the fellows.
While Western audiences widely oppose the slaughter of wildlife and marketing of tusks, horns, and other body parts, polls show little shift in favor of conservation in Asia, Rachel Nuwer reports in Poached: Inside the Dark World of Wildlife Trafficking. Nuwer traveled to 12 countries to examine the illegal demand for wildlife and efforts underway made to halt impending species extinctions.