Making ends meet on an intern’s salary can be hard. Stipends don’t always cover the full costs of temporarily relocating to a new city or making ends meet while working remotely. Sometimes, prioritizing steps to advance your career can mean putting off other income opportunities that would otherwise serve more immediate financial needs.
Video archive of members-only NASW virtual events from 2025.
“We really can die of a broken heart,” Mary-Frances O'Connor reports in The Grieving Body: How the Stress of Loss Can Be an Opportunity for Healing. The brain/body connection is real, she says, though poorly understood. When death, chronic illness, or other major losses disrupt one’s equilibrium, she suggests, improved self-awareness, habit-change, and reconnection with others may help restore it.
Join us for a PIO Committee meetup! Committee co-chairs Lauren Quinn (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) and Gary Werner (Arizona State University) will present the results of our recent PIO member survey.
On February 10, 2025, leaders of five journalism organizations, including the National Association of Science Writers and representing more than 7,000 members in the United States and abroad, sent the following letter to the heads of eight U.S. federal agencies that have recently removed public datasets and databases funded by Americans’ tax dollars.
The National Association of Science Writers (NASW) and the Council for the Advancement of Science Writing (CASW) are proud to invite you to ScienceWriters2025 — the annual conference serving science writing professions and professionals in the United States and beyond. Locations and dates to be announced soon. Session proposals due in March.
Feb. 10, 2025On February 5, 2025, NASW co-signed a letter to U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Edward R. Martin, Jr. and congressional leaders. Martin had made public statements threatening to prosecute journalists reporting factual information surrounding the Department of Government Efficiency.
The National Association of Science Writers addresses the current external communications freeze for agencies within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
