Building a Future in Health & Science Journalism

Building Online Communities in Health, Science and Technology News

Wednesday, 18 January 2011
MIT Faculty Club, Cambridge, Mass. (Dining Room East)
5:30 pm — Munchies and schmoozing
6:30 – 8:30 pm — Panel discussion

The future of health, science and technology journalism is being forged, in part, by several reporters and editors in the Boston area who have taken the lead in creating online news operations serving specific audiences in new ways.

Some have figured out a way to become sustainable in a short time. Others are still searching for long-term viability. This event features journalists who have built robust audiences using different editorial strategies, staffing tactics and business models.

The panelists will discuss what works, what doesn’t work, and what’s changing. Hear their stories and discuss the ideas and experiences that are shaping the future of how people will be informed and engaged about health, science and technology for decades to come.

RSVP at https://web.memberclicks.com/mc/quickForm/viewForm.do?orgId=nesw&formId=112835
$15 for NESW members and 2011-12 Knight fellows
$20 for guest attendees
NOTE: Registration is limited to the first 100 people who RSVP online.

Organized by Carol Cruzan Morton (@carolmorton) and Alison Bass.
Thanks to Knight Science Journalism at MIT for providing the audiovisual equipment.

Build it … and they will come.

The Internet has enabled new models of journalism, and some of the pioneering online news sites have specialized in science, health and technology content. Stay tuned to NESW emails for details on a panel discussing the editorial strategies, staffing tactics and business models that have worked and what’s changing.

Wednesday, 18 January 2011
Building Online Communities in Health, Science and Technology News
MIT Faculty Club, Cambridge, Mass.

UPDATE (1/9/12): Register now at https://web.memberclicks.com/mc/quickForm/viewForm.do?orgId=nesw&formId=112835

Cost:
$15 for NESW members and 2011-12 Knight fellows
$20 for guest attendees

Eat, drink & be merry

The popular annual holiday party happens Wednesday, 7 December 2011. NESW members, check your email for details. Special guests include Knight/Mit and Nieman/Harvard fellows and boot camp program attendees.

Didn’t get an email? We recently purged the member database of long-expired memberships and non-member event attendees.

To get back in the loop, click on the on the join button to the left to re-up your membership.

NESW makes news

NESW Member Noelle Swan found news at an October 20 New England Science Writers event; a primer on Special Relativity and the faster-than-light neutrinos story by Harvard Professor Gary Feldman.

The Science of Counting Fish: June 18

What: Fishermen and some scientists rail against catch limits they believe are overly harsh, imposed by marine scientists and government officials who claim that certain species are dangerously overfished. The science of assessing fish populations is inexact, say our two speakers, who will discuss new technologies under development that may more accurately “count” fish and know whether or not fisheries are indeed healthy.

When: 2 pm, Saturday, June 18

Where: New Bedford Whaling Museum, downtown New Bedford ($10 per person at the door)

Who: Ocean engineer Hanumant Singh, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution; and
Marine biologist Kevin Stokesbury, School for Marine Science & Technology, UMass Dartmouth

Reception:  4:30-5:30 pm, at a pub up the street (cash bar).

RSVP: to organizer Ann Parson parson-a (at) verizon.net by June 14 (or call 508-984-1955). Parking & bus information upon RSVP.

Books & Blogging: Gutenberg Meets Google (and WordPress and Twitter…)

Updated 24 March 2011

Books & Blogging: Gutenberg Meets Google (and WordPress and Twitter…)
Thursday, 24 March 2011

6 pm  Schmoozing
6:45 – 8:15 pm  Panel discussion
Harvard University, Cambridge
Room 307 Pierce Hall, 22 Oxford St.

NOTE: Limited public parking at street meters (map-directions).
Stay tuned to NESW email and http://neswonline.com for updates.

The panelists: Read more »

Video and audio of journalist-blogging event

Courtesy gazzaPax/Creative Commons License.

About 50 people joined us at the Harvard Faculty Club 19 January 2011 for our health and science journalism blogging panel.

The video and audio of the event are now available at MIT Tech TV, thanks to the generous support of the National Association of Science Writers. The video was produced by Dianne Finch and filmed by Finch and Arezu Sarvestani. Finch is the multimedia manager at the Knight Science Journalism program. Read more »

Blog about it: NESW event 19 Jan 2011

New England Science Writers is kicking off the new year with a dazzling panel on blogging about health & science on Wed. 19 Jan. It’s on track to be a sell-out event. Twitter hashtag: #nesciblog11

The panel features:

* Daniel Carlat (http://carlatpsychiatry.blogspot.com)
* Ivan Oransky (http://embargowatch.wordpress.com, http://retractionwatch.wordpress.com)
* Gary Schwitzer (http://www.healthnewsreview.org/blog/)
* Rachel Zimmerman (http://commonhealth.wbur.org/)
Moderated by Alison Bass (http://alison-bass.blogspot.com/)

Panelists will talk about why they blog and how it’s helped them gain an audience and better establish themselves as credible experts in their fields. They will provide tips on how to blog and build up  readership and discuss how blogs fit into the larger universe of health and science journalism. We’re planning lots of time for discussion. Read more »

Calendar for Monday December 6th to Sunday December 12th

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Calendar for the week of Monday November 22nd to Sunday November 28th, 2010.

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