We are looking for a part-time engagement editor who can help develop and administer social media and promotion materials to enable TON to extend its visibility and impact within relevant communities. This position is remote and is a part-time (20 hours per month) contract position. Application deadline is Tuesday, June 12.
The Open Notebook is seeking pitches for a new article series that will examine the experiences, expertise, and perspectives of science journalists from communities that are underrepresented in science journalism. The “Diverse Voices” series aims to bring greater visibility to these journalists and to issues of special relevance to them. We invite pitches for original reported articles, Q&A interviews, roundtable discussions, first-person or reported essays, and other stories that help fulfill the series goals.
We are thrilled to announce that Science Sandbox, an initiative of the Simons Foundation, has awarded The Open Notebook a $150,000 grant to expand our work. The goals of the grant, $75,000 per year for two years, are twofold: to launch a new “Diverse Voices” series of articles, a project that will be a partnership with the National Association of Science Writers Diversity Committee; and to support a substantial portion of TON‘s operating expenses.
What happens if you ask a child, “Hey, do you want to talk to a scientist?” That question drove science writer Jenny Cutraro to develop Science Storytellers, a public engagement program that aims to sit children down to interview scientists, just like professional journalists do—and then to share their science stories. The answer, it turns out, is that kids eat it up. Want to see for yourself?
Join TON and Science Storytellers at Family Science Days at the 2018 AAAS meeting in Austin, Texas.
The Open Notebook is excited to introduce the latest recipients of our fellowship for early-career science journalists, made possible by a generous grant from the Burroughs Wellcome Fund. Congratulations and welcome, Aneri Pattani and Olga Kreimer!
We’re delighted to say that we have met our goal of raising $5,000 by December 31. These gifts will be matched by an anonymous donor, for a total of $10,000. Thank you to all who […]
Science journalism (like science) has never been more essential than today—or more under attack. To survive and thrive, science journalists need to be extremely good at what they do. TON is the only publication dedicated to helping science journalists improve their skills. To do that, we need your help. Now, you can double or even triple your impact: Through December 31, all donations up to a total of $5,000 will be matched—and recurring donations will be matched 2:1.
We are now accepting applications for the next two rounds of The Open Notebook/Burroughs Wellcome Fund fellowship for early-career science writers.
The Open Notebook has been around for almost 7 years, and in that time we’ve grown to a point where we have about 10,000 unique users a month, visiting from almost every country in the world. We want to know more about who our readers are and what science writing tools and resources you most value and need, so that we can better serve our community. Please help us out by taking our 5-minute survey.
The Science Storytellers booth at AAAS’s Family Science Days event will let kids become storytellers for the day. We’ll show the kids how to talk with scientists in the manner of science journalists: What’s your work all about? How did you get interested in that? Why does it matter? Then we’ll ask kids to share their stories with us. If you’re a scientist or a science writer who’d like to help kids become science storytellers, join us!
The Open Notebook is excited to introduce the latest recipients of our fellowship for early-career science journalists, made possible by a generous grant from the Burroughs Wellcome Fund. Congratulations and welcome, Rodrigo Pérez Ortega and Rachel Zamzow!
High-quality science journalism has never been more essential. The best science journalists provide critical context and analysis that help readers appreciate the cumulative nature of scientific advance, distinguish scientific controversy from politically motivated debate, and meet the human characters behind research endeavors. The Open Notebook is the only organization dedicated to providing science journalists with the tools to sharpen their skills. If TON has helped you, please consider making a tax-deductible contribution to support science journalism.
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We are now accepting applications for the next two rounds of The Open Notebook/Burroughs Wellcome Fund fellowship for early-career science writers.
TON is thrilled to announce a new collaboration that we hope will benefit science writers at all levels of experience, from students to veterans. With support from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, The Open Notebook and the Council for the Advancement of Science Writing are partnering to produce a series of Storygrams: annotated stories aimed at shedding light on what makes some of the best science writing so outstanding.
The Open Notebook is thrilled to welcome Jane C. Hu as the latest fellow in the TON/BWF early-career fellowship program. We look forward to great stories to come!
Today, The Open Notebook is pleased and proud to announce a partnership with the authors of Science Blogging: The Essential Guide. The book, forthcoming on March 1 from Yale University Press and funded by grants from the Sloan Foundation and from the National Association of Science Writers, is aimed at science journalists, scientists, and anyone else who has something to say about science and wants to do it on a blogging platform.
We are thrilled to introduce Christina Selby, the latest recipient of our fellowship for early-career science journalists, made possible by a generous grant from the Burroughs Wellcome Fund.
We are now accepting applications for The Open Notebook/Burroughs Wellcome Fund fellowship for early-career science writers.
We’re thrilled to announce that TON is joining forces with the Knight Science Journalism program at MIT in a new funding collaboration that will allow us to build substantially on the resources we offer to science journalists. We couldn’t be prouder to call KSJ our flagship supporter.
We are delighted to announce the latest recipients of our second round of fellowships for early-career science journalists, made possible by a grant from the Burroughs Wellcome Fund. In a large pool of outstanding applicants, Geoffrey […]
We are now accepting applications for The Open Notebook/Burroughs Wellcome Fund fellowship for early-career science writers. (See here for stories written by our previous two fellows.) The Fellowship The next four-month TON/BWF fellowship will begin on […]
When we launched The Open Notebook in October 2010, our goal was modest: to conduct a series of intermittent interviews with writers whose work we admired. It wasn’t long before we started hankering to do more, but […]
After a year of serving as TON‘s managing editor, Christie Aschwanden is stepping down to make time for other projects. During her year as managing editor, Christie instituted a weekly publishing schedule and commissioned and edited […]
Including diverse voices in science stories ensures more accurate and complete stories that more fully reflect and inform readers, and is the equitable thing to do. On this page, we compile detailed and specific resources and strategies for making that goal a reality.
The articles in this collection from The Open Notebook—on topics such as covering preprint manuscripts, interviewing people who have experienced trauma, spotting shady statistics, avoiding spreading misinformation, and more—are especially relevant for anyone covering the coronavirus pandemic.
Good Transitions: A Guide to Cementing Stories Together
A Day in the Life of Sabrina Imbler
Journalists as Characters: Using First-Person Narration to Drive Stories
COVID-19 Reporting Diaries: March 25–31, 2020
Reporting on Health: What 18 Journalists Wish They’d Known from the Start
How to Read a Scientific Paper
Interrogating Data: A Science Writer’s Guide to Data Journalism
Making Your Writing and Reporting Transgender-Inclusive
Writing When on the Autism Spectrum
How to Talk to Your Facebook Friends about Fake News
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