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The Open Notebook (TON) Early-Career Fellowship Program 2023 for early-career science journalists ($4,000 Stipend) Application Deadline:  October 31, 2023.

More candy will be consumed on Easter than any other holiday. That means a lot of extra sugar in Atlanta kids' — and adults' — diets

Deadline: 17-Mar-23 The Open Notebook has launched the Sharon Dunwoody Science Journalism Mentoring Program, a free, nine-month mentoring program aimed at

Deadline: 31-Oct-22 The Open Notebook is offering grants through its Early-Career Fellowship Program. Every year, The Open Notebook offers a paid,

Meet SEJ member Spoorthy Raman! Spoorthy is a science and environment journalist based in Canada with over six years of science writing and two years of journalism experience. She helped start a multilingual science news portal in India called Research Matters, where she was the Managing Editor between 2016 and 2020. Later, Spoorthy started her career as an independent science

AAAS has announced this year’s cohort of Mass Media Fellows this week – 28 young scientists who will be placed in newsrooms around the country for a summer of hands-on immersion in science journalism.

When Siri Carpenter, who runs The Open Notebook (TON), and Kristin Lewis, who runs the AAAS Mass Media Fellowship (MMF), first met, they immediately wanted to collaborate: TON provides advice, tools, and resources for science journalists, and the MMF places science students or recent graduates in newsrooms for 10 weeks.

María Paula Rubiano A. is Grist’s Environmental Justice Fellow. She’s a science and environmental journalist writing about biodiversity, environmental justice, food, and sustainability for Grist, Science, Yale Environment 360, Hakai, Audubon, Atlas Obscura, The Open Notebook, and more.

The 47th class of Mass Media Science & Technology Fellows heading out to newsrooms around the country this summer is part of one of the oldest ongoing science communication initiatives by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Since 1975, more than 750 scientists, engineers, and mathematicians in the fellowship have spent 10 weeks reporting and writing news stories at media outlets around the US. For the participants, the program is a way to explore a new career or impr...

María Paula Rubiano is a freelance science journalist based in Colombia who writes about biodiversity, environmental justice, food, and climate change. She started her career reporting on Colombia’s diverse ecosystems for El Espectador newspaper. Since graduating from New York Universitys masters program in Science, Health and Environmental Reporting, her work has appeared in Popular Science, Audubon, Gastro Obscura, The Open Notebook, Mutante.org, and more.