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Alison Bass—Brassy Broad: How one journalist helped pave the way to #MeToo
In 1989, Alison Bass reported for The Boston Globe on psychiatrists who had sex with their patients. In 1992, she reported for The Globe on pedophile priests, a decade before The Globe launched its Spotlight investigation. Later she documented sex workers’ lives, a topic she expanded into a book. Brassy Broad: How one journalist helped pave the way to #MeToo is her memoir.
Dennis Meredith—Explaining Research: How to Reach Key Audiences to Advance Your Work, 2nd Ed.
Scientists and journalists seeking to explain scientific research findings, implications, and applications need a variety of tools and techniques from jargon-free language to social media skills. Audiences still filter information through their own values. In Explaining Research: How to Reach Key Audiences to Advance Your Work, 2nd Ed., Dennis Meredith aims to help readers get messages across.
Desk Notes Newsletter, September 15, 2021
Inside the September 2021 issue: Get the latest #SciWri21 updates, apply for a Diversity Reporting Grant, meet a new member, & more.
NASW helps launch Spark Grant Initiative
Science journalism across the globe will get a boost through a grant program launched by the World Federation of Science Journalists (WFSJ) with funding from NASW and four other science writing associations.
Sep. 15, 2021
Meet new member Ernie Mastroianni
Ernie Mastroianni, a retired science writer and photo editor based in Milwaukee, Wis. and a new addition to the NASW community, shares #WhySciWri in this short Q&A.