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Now online: Connector pitching tipsheet CASW kicked off 2024 with its second Connector Chat, a live conversation that aimed to help participants hone their skills at pitching science stories to editors. During the hour-l...

CASW accepting entries for 2024 prizes, fellowships Update May 16: CASW is no longer accepting fellowship or Sharon Begley Award entries for 2024. The Council for the Advancement of Science Writing is now accepting entries and nomin...

Q&A with CASW’s first physical sciences graduate fellow This year, thanks to support from The Brinson Foundation, CASW expanded its long-running Taylor/Blakeslee graduate fellowship program by adding an enhanced award for a science writ...

Scenes from ScienceWriters2023 Every year, the ScienceWriters meeting brings together reporters, editors, filmmakers, writers and other professionals who are dedicated to the craft of science communication. As a...

Fellows gather for first SHERF Symposium As others attending ScienceWriters2023 were making their way to Colorado on October 6, a select group of early-career journalists were already gathered in Boulder discussing import...

CASW launches 2023 giving season challenge This campaign has now ended. Thanks to all who contributed! To donate to CASW, just click the DONATE button on the menu bar. Today the Council for the Advancement of Science Writin...

CASW’s first Connector Chat generates fellowship resources Resources from CASW’s first Connector Chat, which offered tips for finding and securing science journalism fellowships, are now available online. Connector is CASW’s library ...

Patient advocates urge science journalists to present more diverse perspectives on Long COVID “It’s time to turn the page on Long COVID,” said patient advocate and storyteller Chimére L. Sweeney, speaking to science writers in Aurora, Colo. Oct. 8 during the Council ...

Researcher encourages journalists to understand varied risks posed by uses of AI Amid the growing enthusiasm for artificial intelligence (AI), journalists must go beyond superficial reporting and ask probing questions that challenge assumptions about AI, an AI ...

Long COVID, AI, UFOs and more: Reporters cover ScienceWriters2023 As experts spoke on topics ranging from environmental disaster response and quantum computers to long COVID, 14 intrepid reporters fanned out across the ScienceWriters2023 conferen...

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