At the Eureka Prize award ceremony on 7 October 2021, SJAA members Dyani Lewis, Carl Smith and Joel Werner took home prizes for their extraordinary science journalism.
Freelance science journalist Dr Dyani Lewis was awarded the Finkel Foundation Eureka Prize for Long-Form Science Journalism for her Cosmos feature ‘Role Models in a Time of Pandemic’, which explores how the little-known field of mathematical disease modelling was behind pandemic policies that upended life as we knew it.
ABC science journalists Carl Smith and Joel Werner are part of the team at ABC Science that won the Australian Museum Eureka Prize for Science Journalism for their Patient Zero podcast. This series tells stories of disease outbreaks: where they begin, why they happen and how we found ourselves in the middle of one.
And congratulations also to CNET science editor Dr Jackson Ryan, who was shortlisted for both these awards.