BREAKING: The Xylom is a finalist in two categories in the @inn.org Awards.
• Insight Award for Visual Journalism: "Meet the Indian Fisherwomen Adapting to a New Normal", and
• Best Investigative Journalism Award: "‘All Hell Breaks Loose’: How Big Oil Ruined a Small Texas Town" by @alexip718.com
The president's budget request is out. The process for funding federal agencies in 2027 has begun. What's a science journalist to do?
Register for our chat with @maxkozlov.bsky.social, @alesszimm.bsky.social, and @virginiagewin.bsky.social, coming up on 4/30.
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It’s here! Today is Local News Day! Today is the day when we can come together and share our support for local news and information with our friends and neighbors. Visit localnewsday.org to find trusted local news where you live, and share with us how you’re celebrating Local News Day! #localnewsday
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Science journalists: Apply for the $20,000 Sharon Begley Science Reporting Award! The prize recognizes the accomplishments of a mid-career science journalist and includes a grant for a significant reporting project.
Deadline: April 30. More information and the submission link at CASW.org
Join us at the #SEJAwards Luncheon on April 17 during the #SEJ2026 Annual Conference in Chicago, where we'll announce the recipient of the Nina Mason Pulliam Award, SEJ's highest honor: sej2026.org/awards
The results are in 🎉
We're proud to announce the winners of the 24th annual #SEJAwards for Reporting on the Environment, honoring the journalists whose work spotlighted our planet's most urgent stories.
Read the full list: sej2026.org/awards#winners
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Save the date for ScienceWriters2026: Join us Sept 25-28 in Corvallis, Oregon for in-person sessions and fabulous local field trips and tours. Bespoke virtual sessions will be offered Oct 14-16. We can't wait to see you online or in person!
LEARN MORE: sciencewriters2026.org
The deadline is TOMORROW to enter work in the 2026 @coveringclimatenow.org Journalism Awards!
Entries must be submitted by Tuesday, March 31, at 11:59pm US Eastern Time.
Work published or broadcast anytime in 2025 is eligible, + there’s no fee to enter.
coveringclimatenow.awardsplatform.com
Journalists: You can now apply for the @outrider.org Nuclear Media Summit in Los Angeles on October 22–23!
This free, two-day event will focus on how nuclear weapons issues intersect with AI, community health, climate and space.
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Journalists, filmmakers & content creators: Join us at the @OutriderFdn Nuclear Media Summit in Los Angeles on Oct. 22–23, 2026!
This free, 2-day event focuses on how #nuclearweapons issues intersect with AI, community health, #climatechange & outer space.
🔗 APPLY NOW: outrider.org/conference/2...
🎥 Now hiring: Post-Production Video Editor (Contract) 🎥 Are you a professional video editor with experience editing long-form recorded events? Drop us a line! In this role, you'd package footage from our HJ26 conference in May. Apply by 6 p.m. ET on March 27. healthjournalism.org/opportunitie...
Have you gotten story ideas, sources or assignments from a #SciWri conference? We want to hear from you!
We and @sciencewriters.org are collecting any and all impacts of the conference. If ScienceWriters has ever helped you do your job, let us know in the form below
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Friends, country people, answer a #science #scicom survey for #research. @sciencewriters.org @scitalkofficial.bsky.social @cragcrest.bsky.social #SciWri26
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Save the date for ScienceWriters2026: Join us Sept 25-28 in Corvallis, Oregon for in-person sessions and fabulous local field trips and tours. Bespoke virtual sessions will be offered Oct 14-16. We can't wait to see you online or in person!
LEARN MORE: sciencewriters2026.org
INN has joined a coalition of 41 press-freedom groups demanding that the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) immediately release journalist Estefany Rodriguez.
Read the statement from @freepress.bsky.social: www.freepress.net/download/pre...
Apply now for the Frances E.W. Harper Fellowship @19thnews.org — a paid, yearlong opportunity for early- and mid-career HBCU alums interested in reporting, audience, news product or development. Our alumni have launched amazing careers. 💜
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Since everyone's discussing oil prices tonight, did you know half of US crude oil exports pass through a single town of 614 people in South Texas?
I spent three years documenting the tragedy of Ingleside on the Bay for @thexylom.com @floodlightnews.org @drilledmedia.bsky.social @deceleration.news:
A foundation of in-depth research can improve the chances that a publication will finance your reporting, writes @bwfund.bsky.social early-career fellow @skylerdware.bsky.social, in this story with @astrolisa.bsky.social, @goesbykim.bsky.social, @sofiamoutinho.bsky.social, and others. 🧪
INN welcomed 22 newsrooms to the INN Network in January and February, including 14 full members and eight provisional members — plus, one affiliate organization that works to support journalism.
A warm welcome to the new members in the 🧵 — and read: news.inn.org/lifting-up-u...
Reminder: The deadline for Taylor/Blakeslee Graduate Fellowships is two weeks from today! If you've been accepted to a graduate program in science writing, you want to apply for this.
ICYMI: We have dates for ScienceWriters2026! We'll see you September 25-28 at @oregonstate.edu.
You can still submit a proposal for a CASW or @sciencewriters.org session by March 10.
#SciWri26
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Join me on March 5 at 10 am PT/1pm ET for a @ScienceWriters Freelance Committee bizchat with a panel of creators from niche publications @sequencermag.bsky.social, @thetransmitter.bsky.social , @wire-wildlife.bsky.social & @jmirpub.bsky.social.
Sign up here!
We are thrilled to have confirmed dates for #SciWri26! And there's still time to submit an NASW or CASW session proposal by the March 10 deadline.
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We're kicking off a webinar series on AI and climate change.
Join us tomorrow, February 24, at 12pm ET! RSVP: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
As funders get squeezed, “journalism is falling down the list" of priorities. —CASW exec director @meaghanparker.bsky.social
Did you miss our Connector Chat on investigative science reporting with @charlespiller.bsky.social and @lizagross.bsky.social? Check out the video, notes, and LOTS of resources in our new tip sheet!
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Take care in how you frame stories about failings in science to guard against misreading or weaponization of your work. This and other tips from @cathleenogrady.bsky.social, with @jbd-phd.bsky.social, @stephaniemlee.bsky.social, @rochmyaningsih.bsky.social, and more. 🧪
Thanks to the Council for the Advancement of Science Writing @sciencewriting.bsky.social for hosting me for a webinar on investigative reporting on science, with the great @lizagross.bsky.social Here's the link: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zvxz...
