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Desk Notes Newsletter, November 18, 2020
Inside the November 2020 edition: Catch up on ScienceWriters2020 coverage, NASW-NWU partnership resolves nonpayment grievance case, volunteers recognized with McGurgan Award, & more.
Bijal P. Trivedi—Breath from Salt: A Deadly Genetic Disease, a New Era in Science, and the Patients and Families Who Changed Medicine Forever
For cystic fibrosis, a hereditary disease often fatal in early decades of life, parents raised millions of dollars to support research by scientists working at the cutting edge of gene therapies. Bijal P. Trivedi ties these threads together in her riveting narrative Breath from Salt: A Deadly Genetic Disease, a New Era in Science, and the Patients and Families Who Changed Medicine Forever.
NASW-NWU partnership resolves another nonpayment grievance case
When a publication folds and writers get ghosted on payment for their work, NASW’s Grievance Partnership with the National Writers Union (NWU) can help.
Meet new member Sam Apple
Sam Apple, faculty program coordinator of the MA in Science Writing program at Johns Hopkins University and a new addition to the NASW community, shares #WhySciWri in this short Q&A.
Science writers urged to tell stories that include Indigenous perspectives
Science, much like history, is rooted in colonialism. To reckon with this, Indigenous scientists and science writers are calling on non-native science writers to amplify Indigenous voices and decolonize science.
The delicate art of covering sexual harassment in academia
A ScienceWriters2020 session titled “Investigating sexual harassment in science," probed the responsibilities of journalists in exposing such cases to the public eye.
Investigating and covering emerging, controversial and contested disease stories
“How do you report on [diseases] where a lot of the tools that are often available to us as science writers, like the published scientific literature, are just not there?” asked Ed Yong, a science journalist for The Atlantic. Yong posed the question at the start of the ScienceWriters2020 session "Covering Emerging, Controversial, and Contested Disease."
Funding for all: The inside scoop on grants and fellowships
Wherever you are in your science journalism career, fellowships and grants can give you the resources to pursue a passion project. But what does it take to get them? A session at ScienceWriters2020 gathered journalists and fellowship coordinators to answer commonly asked questions about grants and fellowships.