On the Shortage of Spanish-Language Science Journalism in U.S. Media

Most U.S. media outlets offer spotty coverage, at best, of science in Spanish, the language spoken by about 40 million people in the nation. The hundreds of publications and two large TV stations that serve U.S. Latinx audiences in Spanish cover science news inconsistently. Significant shifts, going well beyond translations from English, must occur to better inform communities that share this language.

Mariela Santos-Muñiz Dec 10, 2019

Donations to TON Will Be Matched Through December 31

To make our work possible, The Open Notebook depends on donations from our community. Thanks to a pool of generous matching donors, gifts made to TON from now through December 31 will be doubled, up to a total of $5,000. If TON is a meaningful resource for you, please consider making a tax-deductible donation.

Siri Carpenter Dec 3, 2019

We’re Giving Away 20 E-book Copies of The Craft of Science Writing

Are you eagerly awaiting the publication of TON‘s first book, The Craft of Science Writing? We are too! (The book drops in February and will be available in independent bookstores, Barnes & Noble, and Amazon. It’s available for pre-order now.)

Meanwhile, we’re giving away 20 copies of the Kindle e-book! Learn how to enter.

TON Editors Nov 20, 2019

Environmental Journalism: A TON Collection

How do you get someone to care about an endangered snail on a faraway island, or about sea level rise halfway around the world? What do you need to know before you head off to report from the field? How do you handle the emotional toll of covering climate change, extinctions, and other environmental crises? How do you define the boundary between reporting and activism? And how do you identify and evaluate potential remedies for environmental problems? This collection can help you answer these questions—and many more—that confront anyone reporting and writing about the environment.

TON en Español

The Open Notebook ha publicado ~400 artículos y otros recursos destinados a ayudar a los periodistas de ciencia a mejorar sus habilidades. Esta página contiene traducciones al español de un conjunto creciente de esos artículos. [The Open Notebook has published ~400 articles and other resources to help science journalists improve their skills. Our readers come from almost every country in the world and include thousands of people whose first language is Spanish. This page contains Spanish translations of a growing collection of these articles.]