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Pulitzers honor CASW awardee’s work, other science journalism The decade-old online science and math magazine Quanta went up against the juggernauts of print journalism to win the prestigious 2022 Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting. T...

2022-23 Taylor/Blakeslee Fellowships help six students plunge into science writing Six talented students passionate about science journalism have been awarded prestigious Taylor/Blakeslee University Fellowships for the 2022-23 academic year from the Council for t...

Amber Dance to direct CASW New Horizons in Science program CASW is pleased to welcome science journalist Amber Dance (@amberldance) as director of New Horizons in Science, CASW’s annual program of science briefings for science writer...

Taylor/Blakeslee Fellow reports from the Norwegian Arctic Brett Simpson (@brettvsimpson) traveled to Norway as an independent journalist last year to report on conflicting interests of a Norwegian mining company and Indigenous Sámi commu...

Propose a session for ScienceWriters2022 CASW invites science writers to propose a session on topics at the intersection of science and science writing as part of the New Horizons in Science program for ScienceWriters2022...

International projects to improve science journalism receive funding from CASW, associations The Spark Grant Initiative (SGI), run under the auspices of the World Federation of Science Journalists (WFSJ), has selected proposals for three projects in South America, Africa...

CASW opens entry window for 2022 awards, fellowships The Council for the Advancement of Science Writing is pleased to accept submissions for five academic fellowships and three major awards to be bestowed in 2022—including a new $2...

Workshop attendees focus on responsible reporting on Indigenous science and race in biomedicine What baggage do the words race, ancestry, and ethnicity carry in biomedical research today? How can traditional science journalism incorporate and respect Indigenous knowledge abou...

From espionage to embryonic research, reporters cover diverse topics at ScienceWriters2021 Attendees at the virtual ScienceWriters2021 conference Sept. 28-Oct. 8 were treated to these topics and more as CASW and its partners offered the 59th New Horizons in Science brie...

Researchers and journalists offer surprising guidance for covering science and race To improve coverage of issues at the intersection of race and science, journalists—particularly those of color—should not only address the nation’s racial reckoning in their ...

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