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CASW awards 2019 New Horizons travel fellowships

Bobbi Booker and Paul Nicolaus, 2019 New Horizons Travel Fellows

CASW is happy to annouce that two journalists have been awarded travel fellowships to attend New Horizons in Science briefings at ScienceWriters2019.

Bobbi Booker (@bobbibooker) is an award-winning Philadelphia-based print and broadcast journalist published in The Philadelphia Tribune, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Examiner.com, BlackAmericaWeb.com, Philadelphia magazine, Philadelphia Weekly, Smooth magazine, UBO.net and numerous online outlets.

Paul Nicolaus (@NicolausWriting) is a freelance writer based in Park Falls, Wisconsin whose work has been published at NPR, Men’s Health, Psychology Today, Outdoor Life, and The Saturday Evening Post.

The fellowships offer a unique introduction to science reporting for freelancer writers and reporters from smaller metropolitan print and broadcast news outlets, with a demonstrated interest in science writing.

CASW also awarded five Regional Travel Fellowships to science writers from Latin America.