BuzzFeed News is offering a paid, 12-week fellowship in science journalism at its Sydney office. The fellowship, which was established in partnership with the Australian National Centre for the Public Awareness of Science and the Australian Science Media Centre, is…
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Arizona State University Sustainability Journalism Fellowship – applications due May 15
Arizone State University offers a Fellowship in Transdisciplinary Science, to support a journalist to be “on the frontlines of research to see how scientists grapple with the problems of today’s world and forge new directions in science”. The one-month fellowship provides…
Applications invited for Australian Antarctic Division Media Program
The Australian Antarctic Division’s Media Program offers journalists the chance to visit Antarctica and Macquarie Island to report on the AAD’s activities. The program offers either a one-week trip to Antarctica or two weeks on Macquarie Island during summer. Applicants…
Journalist-in-Residence at Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics
The Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics – also known as the Albert Einstein Institute – is inviting experienced science journalists to apply for residencies at the Potsdam, Germany location. The residencies are open to journalists in any medium, freelance…
CancerWorld Journalism Award – entries due soon
The entry window for CancerWorld magazine’s annual journalism award closes soon (May 1), so any journalists who have done in-depth or investigative pieces on cancer are encouraged to get their entries in soon. The categories for the award are patient…
Travel grants for Heidelberg Laureate Forum
The Heidelberg Laureate Forum brings together recipients of the Abel Prize, ACM A.M. Turing Award, ACM Prize in Computing, Fields Medal, and the Nevanlinna Prize, along with 200 young researchers from all over the world, in Heidelberg, Germany. This year, the Heidelberg…
World Conference of Science Journalists 2019: call for session proposals
The 2019 World Conference of Science Journalists, held in Lausanne, Switzerland from 1-4 July 2019, has put out a call for session proposals. They are particularly interested in: sessions on investigative and critical science journalism, proposals from Africa, Asia, Latin…
Do scientists have the right to review stories about their work?
It’s an ongoing source of tension between scientists and the science journalists reporting on them: many scientists believe they have the right to review any reporting of their work, while many science journalists and science outlets argue they don’t. In…
Two in-house science writing jobs in Sydney
It’s a red-letter week for science writers looking for one of the precious few in-house jobs going in Australia in the area of science writing and science journalism; there are not one but two jobs advertised in the past week.…
American Geophysical Union journalism award entries due
The American Geophysical Union sponsors three journalism awards – the David Perlman Award for Excellence in Science Journalism for news writing, the Walter Sullivan Award for Excellence in Science Journalism for feature writing, and the Robert C. Cowen Award for Sustained…