Tag: science
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Press Scholarships for the Holberg Prize and Nils Klim Prize Award Ceremony in Bergen
The EUSJA is pleased to announce 2 press scholarships to attend the award ceremony for the 2018 Holberg Prize and Nils Klim Prize and related events that will take place in Bergen, Norway, between the 4th and the 6th of June, 2018. The winning journalists will be the guests of the Holberg Prize and the University of…
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Award for Journalists
The European School of Oncology announced a call for Cancer World Journalism Award. The Award is open to journalists worldwide who cover cancer in their work which can be print, online, radio or television. We have four categories and a prize of 1500 euros for each category plus an overall winner. Journalistic work must have…
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Alternative Facts Stop Here
By Aisling Irwin, science journalist, ABSW These days, scientists are dismayed at the devaluation of their principal currency: the fact. At the Falling Walls 2017 conference in Berlin last week they were making this very clear. Hundreds of delegates at the annual meeting of scientific luminaries posed in front of the splendid Brandenburg Gate holding…
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Who’s afraid of science journalists? Portugal’s scientists step into journalists’ shoes
By Vera Novais, Observador The “Who’s afraid of journalists?” session at SciComPT2017 meeting, in Portugal, explored the tricky relationship between journalists, scientists and press officers by having them role play each other’s jobs What would happen if you put a scientist into a newsroom, and a journalist into a research lab? They might just have…
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Moving from research career into science writing: lessons from Ireland and UK
By Tom Kennedy Researchers sometimes wonder if they should, or even could, start broadcasting or writing about science. Is it possible to take leave of the lab and become a science communicator? This was the question uppermost in the minds of science postdocs at Queen’s this month when they gathered to hear what a panel…