Reported Features

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Smooth Scriptwriting

Tiên Nguyễn

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Tackling the Physical Sciences

Tiên Nguyễn

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The First Critic Is You: Editing Your Own Work

Tiên Nguyễn

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Covering the Environment Beat

Tina Casagrand

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Dispatches from Fact-Checking

Shannon Palus

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Nailing the Nut Graf

Tina Casagrand

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Weaving a Seamless Tale from Threads of Narrative and Exposition

Anil Ananthaswamy

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Writing Revealing Stories Based on Unreliable Sources

Ann Finkbeiner and Will Storr

August Rodin's statue THE THINKER.

#$%^* This: What Else Are My Skills Good For?

Helen Fields

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Data Journalism: A Primer for Science Journalists

Tina Casagrand

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Track Changes: From Writer to Editor

Corinna Wu

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Tools: Planner Pad, the Funnel of Focus

Christie Aschwanden

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Show Me the Money: The Economics of Freelance Science Journalism

Rose Eveleth and Rachel Nuwer

A pie chart showing the (binary) gender distribution of authors of the Open Education Database's listing of best 100 science books of all time. The vast majority are by men.

The XX Question

Deborah Blum

How to Ace a 300-Word Story: An Interview with Roy Peter Clark

Anne Sasso

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Pictures and Prose: When Photographers and Writers Work Together

Erik Vance

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Butterfly On A Bullet

Robert Lee Hotz