Month: February 2012

Welcome to the 8th World Conference of Science Journalists in Helsinki in 2013

Dear colleagues, The first details of WCSJ2013 have now been revealed at a press conference in the AAAS Annual meeting. The next important WCSJ 2013 dates are Call for session proposals, open on March 1, 2012, exhibition details available by June 2012 and the early registration, begins September 10, 2012. WCSJ 2013 takes place right…

27th February 2012
EUSJA-sessions at the upcoming ESOF in Dublin

The Euroscience Open Forum (ESOF) is Europe’s largest general science meeting and is held in a leading European city every two years. It is an interdisciplinary, pan-European meeting, held under the auspices of Euroscience, and the first meeting was held in Stockholm in 2004, followed by Munich (2006), Barcelona (2008) and Turin (2010). Dublin was…

20th February 2012
Global Energy Prize’s International Media Competition Opens

Energy of Word Award for best coverage of energy related issues is launched to journalists worldwide

14th February 2012
Mariko Takahashi: Hatoyama’s questionable Nature article

Writing in the Dec. 15 issue of Nature magazine, former Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama and Lower House member Tomoyuki Taira, both from the ruling Democratic Party of Japan, called for the disaster-stricken Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant to be nationalized. The commentary in Britain’s prestigious scientific journal represented an extremely rare case of Japanese…

14th February 2012

Welcome to the 8th World Conference of Science Journalists in Helsinki in 2013