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Dear Friend Welcome to CASW Spotlight As we celebrate theopening of the 10th World Conference of ScienceJournalists in San Francisco this week we are proud tolaunch a newsletter for supporters of excellence inscience writing It is our goal to open a conversationabout what we can accomplish together thanks to yoursupport of science journalism and the communication ofscience WCSJ2017 is a powerful and exciting example
You have received this inaugural issue because you area supporter of science journalism through yoursponsorship of WCSJ2017 or another program of theCouncil for the Advancement of Science Writing Thankyou
With Spotlight we hope to tell you a bit about whatCASW is doing with the vital resources you haveprovided Now and after WCSJ2017 we will shareconference updates community stories and data toshare the amazing things your support has enabledPlease feel free to share these with colleagues andothers
Support and development of excellent sciencejournalism is ever more urgent in todayrsquos complexchanging factshyquestioning troubled world WCSJ2017is just one way in which CASW since its founding in1959 has carried out its mandate ldquoto improve publicunderstanding appreciation and enjoyment of scienceby enhancing the quantity and quality of science newsreaching the publicrdquo Spotlight will also share news ofthe other ongoing CASW activities that many of younourish through financial support collaboration andvolunteerism
We hope you will contact us with program ideas andsuggestions relevant funding opportunities andquestions If you are just getting to know CASW wehope this is the start of a long friendship
Gratefully Ros Rosalind Reid Executive Director Council for the Advancement of ScienceWriting
In this issue Sponsors rock WCSJ2017 by the numbers Global issue workshops In the Spotlight Travel fellows
Display your WCSJ2017sponsorship proudly
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WCSJ2017 Sponsors Rock
The 10th World Conference of Science Journalists has come together beautifully Let mesay upfront we could not have done it without you Your financial support andenthusiasm for improving science journalism has made it possible to host an extraordinaryfive-day global program in one of the worldrsquos most exciting cities More than 1200 sciencejournalists from 70 countriesmdashfrom Vietnam to Boliviamdashwill join us in San Francisco thisweek making it not only the first such conference in the US but also the biggest and mostdiverse World Conference to date
Your sponsorship has made it possible to provide fellowships for journalists and studentsand travel support for speakers who will discuss exciting new frontiers in science as well aschallenges in communicating about science in a complex world (and hopefully solutions aswell) We will work and socialize with old and new colleagues and friends travel to ourhost campuses at the University of California in San Francisco and Berkeley and getaround the Bay area on field trips after the meeting After two and a half years of hard workby dozens of volunteers we could not be more excited at whatrsquos ahead
Thank you for helping us get here
Best
Cris
CRISTINE RUSSELL Co-Chair WCSJ2017 Organizing Committee Science Journalist and Harvard Kennedy School Fellow
Enabled by WCSJ2017 Support Global IssueWorkshops
Training on global issues in Africa Asia and Latin America WCSJ2017
Two WCSJ2017 pre-conference workshops on global food security and emerging diseases willhelp reporters from Africa Asia and Latin America expand their knowledge and connect with in-country research on these global issues The workshops are organized by the World Federation ofScience Journalists (WFSJ)
Sorting scientific fact from fiction when reporting such complex topics is not simple particularlyfor early-career reporters and editors with limited technical training
Support provided by Research Councils UK (RCUK) one of Europersquos largest multi-disciplinaryresearch organizations will allow journalists from these regions to attend the pre-conferenceworkshops and enhance their journalistic skills professional networks and scientific knowledge
by attending the full conference Additional support comes from travel fellowships provided byCanadas International Development Research Centre (IDRC)
Training on global food security and emerging viruses in Africa Asiaand Latin America WCSJ2017
Two WCSJ2017 pre-conference workshops on global food security and emerging diseases willhelp reporters from Africa Asia and Latin America expand their knowledge and connect with in-country research on these global issues The workshops are organized by the World Federation ofScience Journalists (WFSJ)
Sorting scientific fact from fiction when reporting such complex topics is not simple particularlyfor early-career reporters and editors with limited technical training
Support provided by Research Councils UK (RCUK) one of Europersquos largest multi-disciplinaryresearch organizations will allow journalists from these regions to attend the pre-conferenceworkshops and enhance their journalistic skills professional networks and scientific knowledgeby attending the full conference Additional support comes from travel fellowships provided byCanadas International Development Research Centre (IDRC)
Feeding the World Earth has ever more human mouths to feed and the number is only growing In 2012 ourpopulation was tallied at 7 billion By 2050 the global census should reach 96 billion
That will of course raise demand for food But fertile farmland acreage is not expanding Norare the freshwater supplies needed for irrigation even as global temperatures rise Raising morefood on marginal land in a warming world is now a pressing goal ldquoFeeding the World Achieving Sustainable Agriculturerdquo a day-long workshop to be held Oct 25at the University of California Davis will explore this new reality Participants will learn howfarmers in developing countries are newly challenged how researchers are looking for moreequitable and sustainable agricultural practices and how new trends in crop biotechnology andnot just genetic engineering may help transform agriculture
Harry Surjadi Founder of Society of Indonesian Environmental Journalists Society ofIndonesian Science Journalists will lead the program Experienced in newspaper and magazinejournalism Surjadi is a journalism innovator who has recruited and trained citizen journalists inrural Borneo to use text messaging to broadcast news important to their communities
Pamela Ronald director of the Institute for Food and Agricultural Literacy at UC Davis willprovide scientific insights Ronaldrsquos laboratory studies genes that make rice plants tolerance ofenvironmental stress and resistance to disease among other things Federica di Palma directorof science at the Earlham Institute who uses computational science and biotechnology to betterunderstand and protect organisms vital to food security will be in the thick of it as well One diPalma laboratory project explores how to preserve the genetic research of wild tilapia fish speciesnow farmed around the world project conservation of threatened and endangered species
Zikarsquos next chapters The half-day workshop ldquoEmerging Infectious Diseases and Post Zika in Latin America and theCaribbeanrdquo on Oct 26 will explore expected developments concerning Zika outbreaks in theCaribbean and Latin America as well as progress with vaccine development efforts Nora Baumlr a science and health editor at the newspaper La Nacioacuten in Argentina will helpparticipants consider how to responsibly cover an emerging disease outbreak despite uncertaintyand disagreement even among scientists Knowing how to assess and characterize the credibilityof scientific claims in such a scenario is vital said Anne-Marie Legault a WFSJ project managerand workshop organizer ldquoWe really want them to go back home with a certainty that science really needs to follow certainprinciples and that researchers need to be really rigorous in following them At the very least wewant to help them check their sources to be very critical of sourcesrdquo Legault said Jimmy Whitworth a Professor at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine andadviser to the World Health Organization will bring scientific insights from his hands-on
involvement In 2016 Whitworth led a rapid-response research team tackling an epidemiologicalstudy in Brazil with scientists from Universidade Federal da Bahia (UFBA) and the EvandroChagas Institute in Brazil
As in the feeding-the-world workshop leaders will ask participating journalists to share whatthey have observed in their home countries regarding the issues in focus Legault hopes that is afirst step to stitching the journalists into a community that can remain connected and helpful toone another long after WCSJ2017 ends Earlier this year Research Councils UK launched a Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF)intended to to help address in the worldrsquos developing countries and expand collaborations withscientists living working within them said Terry OrsquoConnor RCUKrsquos communications director
Supporting professional training for journalists covering scientific topics in lower-resource poorcountries in Africa Asia and Latin America could support that work in multiple ways he said Itcould better inform people about good research being conducted at home And it could raiseawareness about the individual researchers involved
ldquoThis is about not only improving the capacity to deliver better coverage of science but also toimprove scientific understandingrdquo OrsquoConnor said
In the Spotlight
WSCJ2017 Travel Fellow MatiasLoewy based in Buenos Aireswhose travel to WCSJ2017 is supported byArgentinas Grupo Insud works as editorof Agencia CyTA-Leloir the first sciencenews agency in Argentina And he is aregional contributor to Medscape enespantildeol the Spanish-language edition ofthe leading site of health news forhealthcare professionals He alsocontributed stories to Scientific AmericanEspantildeol from 2015 to 2017 served assenior editor of Newsweek Argentinafrom 2007 to 2015 and served as aneditor from 2005 to 2007 of the sciencemedicine and technology section ofNoticias the most widely sold newsmagazine in Argentina His contributionsto the advancement of science journalism
For more than 10 yearsWCSJ2017 Travel Fellow Ling Xinhas worked as a staff reporter andassociate editor of the Bulletin of theChinese Academy of Sciences the worldrsquoslargest scientific and researchorganization in Beijing She alsocontributes freelance stories to PhysicsWorld magazine in Bristol UK and otherpublications From 2014 to 2015 she wasa visiting journalist at Science magazinepublished by the American Association forthe Advancement of Science inWashington DC and from 2005 to2006 she completed an internship withXinhua News Agency in Beijing AtWCSJ2017 for which she received afellowship from the AAAS Xin hopes totake notes on how her American
include founding and currently serving aspresident of Red Argentina de PeriodismoCientifico (the Argentine Network ofScience Journalists) He has taughtscience journalism at several universitiesincluding the Leloir Institute Foundationin Buenos Aires where he has been aprofessor for more than a decade He alsohas taught science journalism at theUniversity of Buenos Aires CoacuterdobaUniversity and Rio Negro University He isthe author of the 2017 bookldquoInmortalidad Promesas fantasias yrealidades de la eterna juventudrdquo ahistorical sociological and scientificjourney through the human pursuit of lifeextension This year he received theKonex Award-Diploma al Meacuterito whichhonored him as one of the five mostoutstanding science journalists of the pastdecade in Argentina In his application fora professional fellowship he wrote that hehas always dreamed of attending a WorldConference of Science Journalists Headded ldquoI would love to get to know theexperiences of colleagues and engage indiscussions about the prospects andtrends in our professionrdquo
colleagues in journalism are coping withcontemporary political and socialchallenges so she can draw inspiration onhow to address media censorship inChina The theme of WCSJ2017 ldquoBridgingScience and Societiesrdquo particularlyappealed to her ldquoThe Chinese Academy ofSciences will be a perfect field test for sucha systemrdquo she wrote in her fellowshipapplication ldquoI look forward to talking toand learning from my Americancolleagues about how [such bridges] workand how this approach could work onChinese soilrdquo Ling Xins travel toWCSJ2017 is supported by the AAASsEurekAlert Chinese-language service
Combined support fromWCSJ2017 sponsors is bringing75 professional and 22 studentfellows to the conference from44 countries Huzzah
For support of the professional and student fellowships WCSJ2017 isgrateful to the William K Bowes Jr Foundation Fundacioacuten Ealy Ortiz the Rutter FoundationResearch Councils UK Canadarsquos International Development Research Centre the AmericanAssociation for the Advancement of ScienceEurekAlert Grupo Insud of Argentina the NationalAssociation of Science Writers (NASW) Nature Annual Reviews the Council for theAdvancement of Science Writing (CASW) Taylor amp Francis Frances Institut de recherche pourle Deacuteveloppement the Waterloo Global Science InitiativeNewswise and the many US sciencewriters whose donations supported the David Perlman Fellowships
Wear your WCSJ2017sponsorship proudly
As a way of embracing our sponsorsrsquo central role inmaking the 10th World Conference of Science Journalistspossible we are pleased to provide co-branding logos foryou to use to visually identify yourself as a conferencesponsor We encourage our sponsors to join us in broadcastingnews and ideas from the conference to your audiencesusing the wcsj2017 hashtag And to trumpet yourspecial sponsor-connection with WCSJ2017 please usethe appropriate sponsor logo in online and printcommunications Thank you for following our usageguidelines as you do so And thank you again for helpingmake WCSJ2017 happen
copy 2107 Council for the Advancement of Science Writing All rights reserved
Our mailing address is CASW PO Box 910 Hedgesville WV 25427
Sign up for the CASW Spotlight mailing list
Want to change how you receive these emails You can update your preferences or unsubscribe from this list
email infocasworg | online casworg
WCSJ2017 Sponsors Rock
The 10th World Conference of Science Journalists has come together beautifully Let mesay upfront we could not have done it without you Your financial support andenthusiasm for improving science journalism has made it possible to host an extraordinaryfive-day global program in one of the worldrsquos most exciting cities More than 1200 sciencejournalists from 70 countriesmdashfrom Vietnam to Boliviamdashwill join us in San Francisco thisweek making it not only the first such conference in the US but also the biggest and mostdiverse World Conference to date
Your sponsorship has made it possible to provide fellowships for journalists and studentsand travel support for speakers who will discuss exciting new frontiers in science as well aschallenges in communicating about science in a complex world (and hopefully solutions aswell) We will work and socialize with old and new colleagues and friends travel to ourhost campuses at the University of California in San Francisco and Berkeley and getaround the Bay area on field trips after the meeting After two and a half years of hard workby dozens of volunteers we could not be more excited at whatrsquos ahead
Thank you for helping us get here
Best
Cris
CRISTINE RUSSELL Co-Chair WCSJ2017 Organizing Committee Science Journalist and Harvard Kennedy School Fellow
Enabled by WCSJ2017 Support Global IssueWorkshops
Training on global issues in Africa Asia and Latin America WCSJ2017
Two WCSJ2017 pre-conference workshops on global food security and emerging diseases willhelp reporters from Africa Asia and Latin America expand their knowledge and connect with in-country research on these global issues The workshops are organized by the World Federation ofScience Journalists (WFSJ)
Sorting scientific fact from fiction when reporting such complex topics is not simple particularlyfor early-career reporters and editors with limited technical training
Support provided by Research Councils UK (RCUK) one of Europersquos largest multi-disciplinaryresearch organizations will allow journalists from these regions to attend the pre-conferenceworkshops and enhance their journalistic skills professional networks and scientific knowledge
by attending the full conference Additional support comes from travel fellowships provided byCanadas International Development Research Centre (IDRC)
Training on global food security and emerging viruses in Africa Asiaand Latin America WCSJ2017
Two WCSJ2017 pre-conference workshops on global food security and emerging diseases willhelp reporters from Africa Asia and Latin America expand their knowledge and connect with in-country research on these global issues The workshops are organized by the World Federation ofScience Journalists (WFSJ)
Sorting scientific fact from fiction when reporting such complex topics is not simple particularlyfor early-career reporters and editors with limited technical training
Support provided by Research Councils UK (RCUK) one of Europersquos largest multi-disciplinaryresearch organizations will allow journalists from these regions to attend the pre-conferenceworkshops and enhance their journalistic skills professional networks and scientific knowledgeby attending the full conference Additional support comes from travel fellowships provided byCanadas International Development Research Centre (IDRC)
Feeding the World Earth has ever more human mouths to feed and the number is only growing In 2012 ourpopulation was tallied at 7 billion By 2050 the global census should reach 96 billion
That will of course raise demand for food But fertile farmland acreage is not expanding Norare the freshwater supplies needed for irrigation even as global temperatures rise Raising morefood on marginal land in a warming world is now a pressing goal ldquoFeeding the World Achieving Sustainable Agriculturerdquo a day-long workshop to be held Oct 25at the University of California Davis will explore this new reality Participants will learn howfarmers in developing countries are newly challenged how researchers are looking for moreequitable and sustainable agricultural practices and how new trends in crop biotechnology andnot just genetic engineering may help transform agriculture
Harry Surjadi Founder of Society of Indonesian Environmental Journalists Society ofIndonesian Science Journalists will lead the program Experienced in newspaper and magazinejournalism Surjadi is a journalism innovator who has recruited and trained citizen journalists inrural Borneo to use text messaging to broadcast news important to their communities
Pamela Ronald director of the Institute for Food and Agricultural Literacy at UC Davis willprovide scientific insights Ronaldrsquos laboratory studies genes that make rice plants tolerance ofenvironmental stress and resistance to disease among other things Federica di Palma directorof science at the Earlham Institute who uses computational science and biotechnology to betterunderstand and protect organisms vital to food security will be in the thick of it as well One diPalma laboratory project explores how to preserve the genetic research of wild tilapia fish speciesnow farmed around the world project conservation of threatened and endangered species
Zikarsquos next chapters The half-day workshop ldquoEmerging Infectious Diseases and Post Zika in Latin America and theCaribbeanrdquo on Oct 26 will explore expected developments concerning Zika outbreaks in theCaribbean and Latin America as well as progress with vaccine development efforts Nora Baumlr a science and health editor at the newspaper La Nacioacuten in Argentina will helpparticipants consider how to responsibly cover an emerging disease outbreak despite uncertaintyand disagreement even among scientists Knowing how to assess and characterize the credibilityof scientific claims in such a scenario is vital said Anne-Marie Legault a WFSJ project managerand workshop organizer ldquoWe really want them to go back home with a certainty that science really needs to follow certainprinciples and that researchers need to be really rigorous in following them At the very least wewant to help them check their sources to be very critical of sourcesrdquo Legault said Jimmy Whitworth a Professor at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine andadviser to the World Health Organization will bring scientific insights from his hands-on
involvement In 2016 Whitworth led a rapid-response research team tackling an epidemiologicalstudy in Brazil with scientists from Universidade Federal da Bahia (UFBA) and the EvandroChagas Institute in Brazil
As in the feeding-the-world workshop leaders will ask participating journalists to share whatthey have observed in their home countries regarding the issues in focus Legault hopes that is afirst step to stitching the journalists into a community that can remain connected and helpful toone another long after WCSJ2017 ends Earlier this year Research Councils UK launched a Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF)intended to to help address in the worldrsquos developing countries and expand collaborations withscientists living working within them said Terry OrsquoConnor RCUKrsquos communications director
Supporting professional training for journalists covering scientific topics in lower-resource poorcountries in Africa Asia and Latin America could support that work in multiple ways he said Itcould better inform people about good research being conducted at home And it could raiseawareness about the individual researchers involved
ldquoThis is about not only improving the capacity to deliver better coverage of science but also toimprove scientific understandingrdquo OrsquoConnor said
In the Spotlight
WSCJ2017 Travel Fellow MatiasLoewy based in Buenos Aireswhose travel to WCSJ2017 is supported byArgentinas Grupo Insud works as editorof Agencia CyTA-Leloir the first sciencenews agency in Argentina And he is aregional contributor to Medscape enespantildeol the Spanish-language edition ofthe leading site of health news forhealthcare professionals He alsocontributed stories to Scientific AmericanEspantildeol from 2015 to 2017 served assenior editor of Newsweek Argentinafrom 2007 to 2015 and served as aneditor from 2005 to 2007 of the sciencemedicine and technology section ofNoticias the most widely sold newsmagazine in Argentina His contributionsto the advancement of science journalism
For more than 10 yearsWCSJ2017 Travel Fellow Ling Xinhas worked as a staff reporter andassociate editor of the Bulletin of theChinese Academy of Sciences the worldrsquoslargest scientific and researchorganization in Beijing She alsocontributes freelance stories to PhysicsWorld magazine in Bristol UK and otherpublications From 2014 to 2015 she wasa visiting journalist at Science magazinepublished by the American Association forthe Advancement of Science inWashington DC and from 2005 to2006 she completed an internship withXinhua News Agency in Beijing AtWCSJ2017 for which she received afellowship from the AAAS Xin hopes totake notes on how her American
include founding and currently serving aspresident of Red Argentina de PeriodismoCientifico (the Argentine Network ofScience Journalists) He has taughtscience journalism at several universitiesincluding the Leloir Institute Foundationin Buenos Aires where he has been aprofessor for more than a decade He alsohas taught science journalism at theUniversity of Buenos Aires CoacuterdobaUniversity and Rio Negro University He isthe author of the 2017 bookldquoInmortalidad Promesas fantasias yrealidades de la eterna juventudrdquo ahistorical sociological and scientificjourney through the human pursuit of lifeextension This year he received theKonex Award-Diploma al Meacuterito whichhonored him as one of the five mostoutstanding science journalists of the pastdecade in Argentina In his application fora professional fellowship he wrote that hehas always dreamed of attending a WorldConference of Science Journalists Headded ldquoI would love to get to know theexperiences of colleagues and engage indiscussions about the prospects andtrends in our professionrdquo
colleagues in journalism are coping withcontemporary political and socialchallenges so she can draw inspiration onhow to address media censorship inChina The theme of WCSJ2017 ldquoBridgingScience and Societiesrdquo particularlyappealed to her ldquoThe Chinese Academy ofSciences will be a perfect field test for sucha systemrdquo she wrote in her fellowshipapplication ldquoI look forward to talking toand learning from my Americancolleagues about how [such bridges] workand how this approach could work onChinese soilrdquo Ling Xins travel toWCSJ2017 is supported by the AAASsEurekAlert Chinese-language service
Combined support fromWCSJ2017 sponsors is bringing75 professional and 22 studentfellows to the conference from44 countries Huzzah
For support of the professional and student fellowships WCSJ2017 isgrateful to the William K Bowes Jr Foundation Fundacioacuten Ealy Ortiz the Rutter FoundationResearch Councils UK Canadarsquos International Development Research Centre the AmericanAssociation for the Advancement of ScienceEurekAlert Grupo Insud of Argentina the NationalAssociation of Science Writers (NASW) Nature Annual Reviews the Council for theAdvancement of Science Writing (CASW) Taylor amp Francis Frances Institut de recherche pourle Deacuteveloppement the Waterloo Global Science InitiativeNewswise and the many US sciencewriters whose donations supported the David Perlman Fellowships
Wear your WCSJ2017sponsorship proudly
As a way of embracing our sponsorsrsquo central role inmaking the 10th World Conference of Science Journalistspossible we are pleased to provide co-branding logos foryou to use to visually identify yourself as a conferencesponsor We encourage our sponsors to join us in broadcastingnews and ideas from the conference to your audiencesusing the wcsj2017 hashtag And to trumpet yourspecial sponsor-connection with WCSJ2017 please usethe appropriate sponsor logo in online and printcommunications Thank you for following our usageguidelines as you do so And thank you again for helpingmake WCSJ2017 happen
copy 2107 Council for the Advancement of Science Writing All rights reserved
Our mailing address is CASW PO Box 910 Hedgesville WV 25427
Sign up for the CASW Spotlight mailing list
Want to change how you receive these emails You can update your preferences or unsubscribe from this list
email infocasworg | online casworg
by attending the full conference Additional support comes from travel fellowships provided byCanadas International Development Research Centre (IDRC)
Training on global food security and emerging viruses in Africa Asiaand Latin America WCSJ2017
Two WCSJ2017 pre-conference workshops on global food security and emerging diseases willhelp reporters from Africa Asia and Latin America expand their knowledge and connect with in-country research on these global issues The workshops are organized by the World Federation ofScience Journalists (WFSJ)
Sorting scientific fact from fiction when reporting such complex topics is not simple particularlyfor early-career reporters and editors with limited technical training
Support provided by Research Councils UK (RCUK) one of Europersquos largest multi-disciplinaryresearch organizations will allow journalists from these regions to attend the pre-conferenceworkshops and enhance their journalistic skills professional networks and scientific knowledgeby attending the full conference Additional support comes from travel fellowships provided byCanadas International Development Research Centre (IDRC)
Feeding the World Earth has ever more human mouths to feed and the number is only growing In 2012 ourpopulation was tallied at 7 billion By 2050 the global census should reach 96 billion
That will of course raise demand for food But fertile farmland acreage is not expanding Norare the freshwater supplies needed for irrigation even as global temperatures rise Raising morefood on marginal land in a warming world is now a pressing goal ldquoFeeding the World Achieving Sustainable Agriculturerdquo a day-long workshop to be held Oct 25at the University of California Davis will explore this new reality Participants will learn howfarmers in developing countries are newly challenged how researchers are looking for moreequitable and sustainable agricultural practices and how new trends in crop biotechnology andnot just genetic engineering may help transform agriculture
Harry Surjadi Founder of Society of Indonesian Environmental Journalists Society ofIndonesian Science Journalists will lead the program Experienced in newspaper and magazinejournalism Surjadi is a journalism innovator who has recruited and trained citizen journalists inrural Borneo to use text messaging to broadcast news important to their communities
Pamela Ronald director of the Institute for Food and Agricultural Literacy at UC Davis willprovide scientific insights Ronaldrsquos laboratory studies genes that make rice plants tolerance ofenvironmental stress and resistance to disease among other things Federica di Palma directorof science at the Earlham Institute who uses computational science and biotechnology to betterunderstand and protect organisms vital to food security will be in the thick of it as well One diPalma laboratory project explores how to preserve the genetic research of wild tilapia fish speciesnow farmed around the world project conservation of threatened and endangered species
Zikarsquos next chapters The half-day workshop ldquoEmerging Infectious Diseases and Post Zika in Latin America and theCaribbeanrdquo on Oct 26 will explore expected developments concerning Zika outbreaks in theCaribbean and Latin America as well as progress with vaccine development efforts Nora Baumlr a science and health editor at the newspaper La Nacioacuten in Argentina will helpparticipants consider how to responsibly cover an emerging disease outbreak despite uncertaintyand disagreement even among scientists Knowing how to assess and characterize the credibilityof scientific claims in such a scenario is vital said Anne-Marie Legault a WFSJ project managerand workshop organizer ldquoWe really want them to go back home with a certainty that science really needs to follow certainprinciples and that researchers need to be really rigorous in following them At the very least wewant to help them check their sources to be very critical of sourcesrdquo Legault said Jimmy Whitworth a Professor at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine andadviser to the World Health Organization will bring scientific insights from his hands-on
involvement In 2016 Whitworth led a rapid-response research team tackling an epidemiologicalstudy in Brazil with scientists from Universidade Federal da Bahia (UFBA) and the EvandroChagas Institute in Brazil
As in the feeding-the-world workshop leaders will ask participating journalists to share whatthey have observed in their home countries regarding the issues in focus Legault hopes that is afirst step to stitching the journalists into a community that can remain connected and helpful toone another long after WCSJ2017 ends Earlier this year Research Councils UK launched a Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF)intended to to help address in the worldrsquos developing countries and expand collaborations withscientists living working within them said Terry OrsquoConnor RCUKrsquos communications director
Supporting professional training for journalists covering scientific topics in lower-resource poorcountries in Africa Asia and Latin America could support that work in multiple ways he said Itcould better inform people about good research being conducted at home And it could raiseawareness about the individual researchers involved
ldquoThis is about not only improving the capacity to deliver better coverage of science but also toimprove scientific understandingrdquo OrsquoConnor said
In the Spotlight
WSCJ2017 Travel Fellow MatiasLoewy based in Buenos Aireswhose travel to WCSJ2017 is supported byArgentinas Grupo Insud works as editorof Agencia CyTA-Leloir the first sciencenews agency in Argentina And he is aregional contributor to Medscape enespantildeol the Spanish-language edition ofthe leading site of health news forhealthcare professionals He alsocontributed stories to Scientific AmericanEspantildeol from 2015 to 2017 served assenior editor of Newsweek Argentinafrom 2007 to 2015 and served as aneditor from 2005 to 2007 of the sciencemedicine and technology section ofNoticias the most widely sold newsmagazine in Argentina His contributionsto the advancement of science journalism
For more than 10 yearsWCSJ2017 Travel Fellow Ling Xinhas worked as a staff reporter andassociate editor of the Bulletin of theChinese Academy of Sciences the worldrsquoslargest scientific and researchorganization in Beijing She alsocontributes freelance stories to PhysicsWorld magazine in Bristol UK and otherpublications From 2014 to 2015 she wasa visiting journalist at Science magazinepublished by the American Association forthe Advancement of Science inWashington DC and from 2005 to2006 she completed an internship withXinhua News Agency in Beijing AtWCSJ2017 for which she received afellowship from the AAAS Xin hopes totake notes on how her American
include founding and currently serving aspresident of Red Argentina de PeriodismoCientifico (the Argentine Network ofScience Journalists) He has taughtscience journalism at several universitiesincluding the Leloir Institute Foundationin Buenos Aires where he has been aprofessor for more than a decade He alsohas taught science journalism at theUniversity of Buenos Aires CoacuterdobaUniversity and Rio Negro University He isthe author of the 2017 bookldquoInmortalidad Promesas fantasias yrealidades de la eterna juventudrdquo ahistorical sociological and scientificjourney through the human pursuit of lifeextension This year he received theKonex Award-Diploma al Meacuterito whichhonored him as one of the five mostoutstanding science journalists of the pastdecade in Argentina In his application fora professional fellowship he wrote that hehas always dreamed of attending a WorldConference of Science Journalists Headded ldquoI would love to get to know theexperiences of colleagues and engage indiscussions about the prospects andtrends in our professionrdquo
colleagues in journalism are coping withcontemporary political and socialchallenges so she can draw inspiration onhow to address media censorship inChina The theme of WCSJ2017 ldquoBridgingScience and Societiesrdquo particularlyappealed to her ldquoThe Chinese Academy ofSciences will be a perfect field test for sucha systemrdquo she wrote in her fellowshipapplication ldquoI look forward to talking toand learning from my Americancolleagues about how [such bridges] workand how this approach could work onChinese soilrdquo Ling Xins travel toWCSJ2017 is supported by the AAASsEurekAlert Chinese-language service
Combined support fromWCSJ2017 sponsors is bringing75 professional and 22 studentfellows to the conference from44 countries Huzzah
For support of the professional and student fellowships WCSJ2017 isgrateful to the William K Bowes Jr Foundation Fundacioacuten Ealy Ortiz the Rutter FoundationResearch Councils UK Canadarsquos International Development Research Centre the AmericanAssociation for the Advancement of ScienceEurekAlert Grupo Insud of Argentina the NationalAssociation of Science Writers (NASW) Nature Annual Reviews the Council for theAdvancement of Science Writing (CASW) Taylor amp Francis Frances Institut de recherche pourle Deacuteveloppement the Waterloo Global Science InitiativeNewswise and the many US sciencewriters whose donations supported the David Perlman Fellowships
Wear your WCSJ2017sponsorship proudly
As a way of embracing our sponsorsrsquo central role inmaking the 10th World Conference of Science Journalistspossible we are pleased to provide co-branding logos foryou to use to visually identify yourself as a conferencesponsor We encourage our sponsors to join us in broadcastingnews and ideas from the conference to your audiencesusing the wcsj2017 hashtag And to trumpet yourspecial sponsor-connection with WCSJ2017 please usethe appropriate sponsor logo in online and printcommunications Thank you for following our usageguidelines as you do so And thank you again for helpingmake WCSJ2017 happen
copy 2107 Council for the Advancement of Science Writing All rights reserved
Our mailing address is CASW PO Box 910 Hedgesville WV 25427
Sign up for the CASW Spotlight mailing list
Want to change how you receive these emails You can update your preferences or unsubscribe from this list
email infocasworg | online casworg
involvement In 2016 Whitworth led a rapid-response research team tackling an epidemiologicalstudy in Brazil with scientists from Universidade Federal da Bahia (UFBA) and the EvandroChagas Institute in Brazil
As in the feeding-the-world workshop leaders will ask participating journalists to share whatthey have observed in their home countries regarding the issues in focus Legault hopes that is afirst step to stitching the journalists into a community that can remain connected and helpful toone another long after WCSJ2017 ends Earlier this year Research Councils UK launched a Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF)intended to to help address in the worldrsquos developing countries and expand collaborations withscientists living working within them said Terry OrsquoConnor RCUKrsquos communications director
Supporting professional training for journalists covering scientific topics in lower-resource poorcountries in Africa Asia and Latin America could support that work in multiple ways he said Itcould better inform people about good research being conducted at home And it could raiseawareness about the individual researchers involved
ldquoThis is about not only improving the capacity to deliver better coverage of science but also toimprove scientific understandingrdquo OrsquoConnor said
In the Spotlight
WSCJ2017 Travel Fellow MatiasLoewy based in Buenos Aireswhose travel to WCSJ2017 is supported byArgentinas Grupo Insud works as editorof Agencia CyTA-Leloir the first sciencenews agency in Argentina And he is aregional contributor to Medscape enespantildeol the Spanish-language edition ofthe leading site of health news forhealthcare professionals He alsocontributed stories to Scientific AmericanEspantildeol from 2015 to 2017 served assenior editor of Newsweek Argentinafrom 2007 to 2015 and served as aneditor from 2005 to 2007 of the sciencemedicine and technology section ofNoticias the most widely sold newsmagazine in Argentina His contributionsto the advancement of science journalism
For more than 10 yearsWCSJ2017 Travel Fellow Ling Xinhas worked as a staff reporter andassociate editor of the Bulletin of theChinese Academy of Sciences the worldrsquoslargest scientific and researchorganization in Beijing She alsocontributes freelance stories to PhysicsWorld magazine in Bristol UK and otherpublications From 2014 to 2015 she wasa visiting journalist at Science magazinepublished by the American Association forthe Advancement of Science inWashington DC and from 2005 to2006 she completed an internship withXinhua News Agency in Beijing AtWCSJ2017 for which she received afellowship from the AAAS Xin hopes totake notes on how her American
include founding and currently serving aspresident of Red Argentina de PeriodismoCientifico (the Argentine Network ofScience Journalists) He has taughtscience journalism at several universitiesincluding the Leloir Institute Foundationin Buenos Aires where he has been aprofessor for more than a decade He alsohas taught science journalism at theUniversity of Buenos Aires CoacuterdobaUniversity and Rio Negro University He isthe author of the 2017 bookldquoInmortalidad Promesas fantasias yrealidades de la eterna juventudrdquo ahistorical sociological and scientificjourney through the human pursuit of lifeextension This year he received theKonex Award-Diploma al Meacuterito whichhonored him as one of the five mostoutstanding science journalists of the pastdecade in Argentina In his application fora professional fellowship he wrote that hehas always dreamed of attending a WorldConference of Science Journalists Headded ldquoI would love to get to know theexperiences of colleagues and engage indiscussions about the prospects andtrends in our professionrdquo
colleagues in journalism are coping withcontemporary political and socialchallenges so she can draw inspiration onhow to address media censorship inChina The theme of WCSJ2017 ldquoBridgingScience and Societiesrdquo particularlyappealed to her ldquoThe Chinese Academy ofSciences will be a perfect field test for sucha systemrdquo she wrote in her fellowshipapplication ldquoI look forward to talking toand learning from my Americancolleagues about how [such bridges] workand how this approach could work onChinese soilrdquo Ling Xins travel toWCSJ2017 is supported by the AAASsEurekAlert Chinese-language service
Combined support fromWCSJ2017 sponsors is bringing75 professional and 22 studentfellows to the conference from44 countries Huzzah
For support of the professional and student fellowships WCSJ2017 isgrateful to the William K Bowes Jr Foundation Fundacioacuten Ealy Ortiz the Rutter FoundationResearch Councils UK Canadarsquos International Development Research Centre the AmericanAssociation for the Advancement of ScienceEurekAlert Grupo Insud of Argentina the NationalAssociation of Science Writers (NASW) Nature Annual Reviews the Council for theAdvancement of Science Writing (CASW) Taylor amp Francis Frances Institut de recherche pourle Deacuteveloppement the Waterloo Global Science InitiativeNewswise and the many US sciencewriters whose donations supported the David Perlman Fellowships
Wear your WCSJ2017sponsorship proudly
As a way of embracing our sponsorsrsquo central role inmaking the 10th World Conference of Science Journalistspossible we are pleased to provide co-branding logos foryou to use to visually identify yourself as a conferencesponsor We encourage our sponsors to join us in broadcastingnews and ideas from the conference to your audiencesusing the wcsj2017 hashtag And to trumpet yourspecial sponsor-connection with WCSJ2017 please usethe appropriate sponsor logo in online and printcommunications Thank you for following our usageguidelines as you do so And thank you again for helpingmake WCSJ2017 happen
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include founding and currently serving aspresident of Red Argentina de PeriodismoCientifico (the Argentine Network ofScience Journalists) He has taughtscience journalism at several universitiesincluding the Leloir Institute Foundationin Buenos Aires where he has been aprofessor for more than a decade He alsohas taught science journalism at theUniversity of Buenos Aires CoacuterdobaUniversity and Rio Negro University He isthe author of the 2017 bookldquoInmortalidad Promesas fantasias yrealidades de la eterna juventudrdquo ahistorical sociological and scientificjourney through the human pursuit of lifeextension This year he received theKonex Award-Diploma al Meacuterito whichhonored him as one of the five mostoutstanding science journalists of the pastdecade in Argentina In his application fora professional fellowship he wrote that hehas always dreamed of attending a WorldConference of Science Journalists Headded ldquoI would love to get to know theexperiences of colleagues and engage indiscussions about the prospects andtrends in our professionrdquo
colleagues in journalism are coping withcontemporary political and socialchallenges so she can draw inspiration onhow to address media censorship inChina The theme of WCSJ2017 ldquoBridgingScience and Societiesrdquo particularlyappealed to her ldquoThe Chinese Academy ofSciences will be a perfect field test for sucha systemrdquo she wrote in her fellowshipapplication ldquoI look forward to talking toand learning from my Americancolleagues about how [such bridges] workand how this approach could work onChinese soilrdquo Ling Xins travel toWCSJ2017 is supported by the AAASsEurekAlert Chinese-language service
Combined support fromWCSJ2017 sponsors is bringing75 professional and 22 studentfellows to the conference from44 countries Huzzah
For support of the professional and student fellowships WCSJ2017 isgrateful to the William K Bowes Jr Foundation Fundacioacuten Ealy Ortiz the Rutter FoundationResearch Councils UK Canadarsquos International Development Research Centre the AmericanAssociation for the Advancement of ScienceEurekAlert Grupo Insud of Argentina the NationalAssociation of Science Writers (NASW) Nature Annual Reviews the Council for theAdvancement of Science Writing (CASW) Taylor amp Francis Frances Institut de recherche pourle Deacuteveloppement the Waterloo Global Science InitiativeNewswise and the many US sciencewriters whose donations supported the David Perlman Fellowships
Wear your WCSJ2017sponsorship proudly
As a way of embracing our sponsorsrsquo central role inmaking the 10th World Conference of Science Journalistspossible we are pleased to provide co-branding logos foryou to use to visually identify yourself as a conferencesponsor We encourage our sponsors to join us in broadcastingnews and ideas from the conference to your audiencesusing the wcsj2017 hashtag And to trumpet yourspecial sponsor-connection with WCSJ2017 please usethe appropriate sponsor logo in online and printcommunications Thank you for following our usageguidelines as you do so And thank you again for helpingmake WCSJ2017 happen
copy 2107 Council for the Advancement of Science Writing All rights reserved
Our mailing address is CASW PO Box 910 Hedgesville WV 25427
Sign up for the CASW Spotlight mailing list
Want to change how you receive these emails You can update your preferences or unsubscribe from this list
email infocasworg | online casworg
copy 2107 Council for the Advancement of Science Writing All rights reserved
Our mailing address is CASW PO Box 910 Hedgesville WV 25427
Sign up for the CASW Spotlight mailing list
Want to change how you receive these emails You can update your preferences or unsubscribe from this list
email infocasworg | online casworg