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Charles Piller wins 2025 Victor Cohn Prize Charles Piller, an investigative journalist for Science Magazine, has been named the winner of the 2025 Victor Cohn Prize for Excellence in Medical Science Reporting. The judges se...

Max Kozlov wins 2025 Evert Clark/Seth Payne Award Max Kozlov at Nature has won the 2025 Evert Clark/Seth Payne Award, CASW’s annual prize for a young science journalist, for his reporting on the Trump Administration’s disrupti...

Emily Sohn wins 2025 Sharon Begley Award for Science Reporting Freelance journalist Emily Sohn has been selected as the winner of the 2025 Sharon Begley Award for Science Reporting. The award, established in 2021 by the Council for the Advance...

Seven journalists awarded 2025-26 Taylor/Blakeslee Fellowships Seven journalists with experience in beats from medicine and biology to neurodegeneration and the environment have been awarded Taylor/Blakeslee Graduate Fellowships from the Counc...

Anna Gibbs awarded Taylor/Blakeslee mentored science journalism project fellowship Freelance journalist Anna Gibbs has been awarded a Taylor/Blakeslee Mentored Science Journalism Project Fellowship to pursue a feature story about an innovative effort to reverse c...

Richard Harris elected CASW president The Council for the Advancement of Science Writing has elected Richard Harris as its next president. Harris was a science correspondent at NPR for 35 years (1986-2021), and author ...

CASW recognizes World Press Freedom Day On World Press Freedom Day, the Council for the Advancement of Science Writing is expressing its unwavering support for Press Freedom United’s (PFU) efforts to defend press ...

ScienceWriters2025 to be held in Chicago November 7-9 The Council for the Advancement of Science Writing and the National Association of Science Writers are excited to announce that ScienceWriters2025 will take place in Chicago, Novem...

Joint statement from CASW and NASW on ScienceWriters2025 The Council for the Advancement of Science Writing (CASW) is updating the science-writing community about a change regarding this year’s conference, ScienceWriters2025. On Novemb...

CASW co-launches Climate News Task Force Editor’s note: This post was updated on 4/21/2025 to reflect that The Xylom has joined the Climate News Task Force. Twelve climate newsrooms are joining forces to form the ...

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