The TON Workshop for Science Editors, to be held April 24-27 in Madison, Wisconsin, will give editors the skills and confidence to work with writers on selecting and sharpening story ideas, planning and carrying out reporting, anticipating and troubleshooting problems in the reporting and writing process, and crafting accurate and compelling stories. Instructors: Jacqui Banaszynski, Laura Helmuth, and Siri Carpenter.
Are you new to science writing? Or are you just thinking about getting into the field and wondering what it’s all about? The Open Notebook has published some 400 articles and other resources aimed at helping science journalists sharpen their skills—and helping newcomers get started. This page contains a small subset of those resources, with a focus on what’s most relevant to new science writers.
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.
Compelling characters. Scenic action. Vibrant sensory details. Intuitive structure. The things that make narrative stories fun to read can also be the hardest to craft. But narrative storytelling isn’t a magical gift—it’s a practical skill that can be learned. Here, we present a few dozen stories from The Open Notebook that focus on elements of narrative storytelling. From finding ideas to writing killer ledes to interviewing for narrative—and more—we’ve got you covered.
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.]
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