Archived video. You're invited: On Monday Oct. 3, from 3 to 5 p.m., the National Press Club (529 14th Street NW, Washington, D.C) will host a panel of journalists and invited administration officials to critique what journalists and the government are (or aren’t) doing to for transparency. Or watch the webcast. http://www.press.org/events/press-freedom-event NASW and its members assisted in data collection for the CJR investigation.
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DON'T PANIC, but Microorganisms R Us. Gut bacteria govern the brain and behavior, mice say. Yogurt and the Mind-Body Problem. My.microbes wants your microbes. The Encyclopedia of Life is reborn: 700,000 species and counting.
NASW Treasurer Ron Winslow, the New York-based deputy bureau chief for health and science and a veteran medical reporter at the Wall Street Journal, has been awarded the 2011 Victor Cohn Prize for Excellence in Medical Science Reporting. Winslow was cited for the “exceptional breadth, precision and clarity of his coverage about how technological innovation is transforming the world of medicine.”
Meet a new human ancestor, maybe. Can 2 million year-old soft tissue be recovered from a fossil site? The politics of vaccination: Republican presidential candidates, HPV vaccine, and cervical cancer. Green fluorescent cats: These are not cute kitties, but genetic engineering a possible weapon against AIDS.
Winners of the 2011 Science in Society Journalism Awards, sponsored by NASW, are Maryn McKenna for her book Superbug: The Fatal Menace of MRSA (Free Press). Katy Butler for her New York Times Magazine article, “My Father’s Broken Heart,” Barbara Moran for her Boston Globe Magazine article, “Power Politics,” Charles Homans, for his Columbia Journalism Review article, “Hot Air.”
Stories about in vitro fertilization, biodiversity, the effects of global warming in the Arctic and in Colorado, and the worldwide effects of a flu pandemic are the subjects of this year's winners of the Science in Society award, which is conferred by the National Association of Science Writers (NASW).
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