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CASW fellows cover ScienceWriters2024: Read their stories Among the audiences at the November ScienceWriters2024 meeting in Raleigh, N.C., were 17 CASW-supported reporters diligently taking notes and conducting interviews to inform covera...

Jason Mast wins 2024 Evert Clark/Seth Payne Award Jason Mast at STAT has won the 2024 Evert Clark/Seth Payne Award, CASW’s annual prize for a young science journalist, for his reporting at the intersection of medical science, bu...

CASW announces Meaghan Parker as next executive director The Council for the Advancement of Science Writing (CASW) is pleased to name Meaghan E. Parker as the organization’s next executive director, effective October 1. Parker will suc...

A new CASW fund for the future of science journalism The Council for the Advancement of Science Writing (CASW) is thrilled to announce a $100,000 gift from the Heineman-Russell Family Foundation in honor of CASW Executive Director Ro...

Freda Kreier awarded mentored science journalism project fellowship Freelance journalist and science writer Freda Kreier has been awarded a Taylor/Blakeslee Mentored Science Journalism Project Fellowship, which includes a small grant for an indepen...

CASW seeks new executive director CASW seeks an individual with strong administrative and fundraising skills to run an organization dedicated to advancing science journalism. This multifaceted job involves a wide r...

CASW executive director Rosalind Reid to retire Following more than a decade of exemplary service as executive director of the Council for the Advancement of Science Writing (CASW), Rosalind Reid has notified the board of direct...

Applications accepted for SHERF program for early-career journalists The 2024 application window has closed. US-based journalists interested in building careers reporting on science, health and the environment are invited to apply for cross-cutting ...

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...

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 ...

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...

CASW debuts Connector, a resource library for science journalism and communication Science journalists and science communicators have a new “one-stop shop” for finding online resources. The Council for the Advancement of Science Writing is proud to announce t...

Michelson grant increases CASW’S Cohn Prize to $5,000 Michelson Philanthropies has awarded the Council for the Advancement of Science Writing a grant to underwrite the Victor Cohn Prize for Excellence in Medical Science Reporting. The...

Taylor/Blakeslee fellow takes on field reporting in Alaska My visit to Kotzebue, Alaska came on the heels of a less welcome guest: Typhoon Merbok. As this powerful storm pummeled the west coast of Alaska, I enjoyed a sunny weekend in Ancho...

CASW elects Ashley Smart as new treasurer Ashley Smart has been elected treasurer of the Council for the Advancement of Science Writing, a nonprofit organization working to increase the quality and quantity of science news...

CASW elects Reid, Stone to board seats The Council for the Advancement of Science Writing is pleased to welcome two distinguished new members to its Board of Directors. Czerne Reid of the University of Florida and Richa...

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...

Robin Lloyd elected president of CASW Freelance science writer and editor Robin Lloyd (@robinlloyd99) has been elected president of the Council for the Advancement of Science Writing, a nonprofit organization working t...

Dave Perlman is no more, long may he be remembered David Perlman, a newspaper reporter since before World War II, a science writer since 1957, and a vital factor in CASW’s growth as an organization, died at his San Francisco home...

Cohn Prize journalists battle misinformation during pandemic “We are living in Coronavirus Standard Time,” says science journalist Jon Cohen, “where each day is like seven in the old world we used to know.” “Each day I wake up and ...

COVID-19 Reporting Resources: Experts from ScienceWriters conferences Science writers: Did you attend a ScienceWriters conference and hear a presentation or had a lunch conversation with an expert in epidemiology, infectious disease modeling, virolog...

CASW’s science journalism showcase comes of age Aspiring and early-career science writers have some new tools for learning from the pros. CASW’s Showcase website, and the Storygrams series of annotations—produced and co...

CASW Fellow David Perlman honored with AGU Presidential Citation David Perlman, CASW Fellow and past president of the Council, has been awarded the 2019 Presidential Citation for Science and Society from the American Geophysical Union (AGU). Per...

Shannon Hall hits the ice Freelance writer and CASW Showcase Managing Editor Shannon Hall is on leave for the next few weeks. She’ll be stranded in the Arctic with the largest polar research excursion...

Wayt Gibbs to join CASW as New Horizons program director CASW is pleased to announce the appointment of Seattle-area science writer and editor W. Wayt Gibbs (@WaytGibbs) as director of New Horizons in Science, CASW’s annual science...

Author, author, CASW board member! Readers are demanding more intelligent nonfiction books, according to the trade publication The Bookseller. Alex Preston writes in The Guardian, “These uncertain times have seen ...

Diane McGurgan retires from CASW after four decades of service to science writing Diane McGurgan, whose unparalleled service to the science writing community spans more than four decades, will retire as administrator of the Council for the Advancement of Science...

CASW names two distinguished Fellows The Council for the Advancement of Science Writing (CASW) has honored two pioneering women science writers who have worked tirelessly to improve the communication of science to the...

2018 Board Resolution Honoring Diane McGurgan A resolution to mark the regrettable but inevitable retirement of Diane McGurgan Voted by the CASW Board of Directors in Washington, D.C., on the 21st of April 2018 WHEREAS In the...

CASW Lifetime Fellow David Perlman hailed as he takes “early retirement” After almost seven decades at The San Francisco Chronicle, former CASW President David Perlman will finally close his reporter’s notebook on August 4, retiring at the age of ...

CASW elects new board members, officers The Council for the Advancement of Science Writing is pleased to announce that three new members have joined the board, while two continuing board members are rotating into offi...

Rosalind Reid to succeed Ben Patrusky as Executive Director of CASW New officers elected; Patrusky to retire after more than 38 years of service to CASW The Council for the Advancement of Science Writing, which presents the nation’s longest-runni...

CASW appoints Rosalind Reid to new program post The Council for the Advancement of Science Writing, Inc., has named Rosalind Reid, the former editor of American Scientist magazine and currently executive director of Harvard̵...

Trio toasted, roasted for CASW service For their collective service of more than 90 years to CASW, Board Directors Philip Boffey, Warren Leary and David Perlman retired from active Board duty and were honored at a dinne...

Mixed views of science writing’s future CASW joined with the Knight Science Journalism Center at MIT, Harvard’s Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy and other organizations to bring a disc...

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