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 Bob Buderi, founder of Xconomy (http://www.xconomy.com/) (@Xconomy) Carey Goldberg, co-host of WBUR CommonHealth (http://commonhealth.wbur.org/) (@commonhealth) Gabrielle Strobel, executive editor of AlzForum [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Video and audio of journalist-blogging event

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 [...]

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/) [...]

Calendar for Monday December 6th to Sunday December 12th

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

Monday October 25th to Sunday October 31st, 2010.

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