Yan: Field Research During COVID-19

Yan: Field Research During COVID-19

Wudan Yan (@wudanyan) received an honorable mention in NSWA’s 2021 Best of the Northwest Science Writing Awards (journalism award) for her April 2021 story in The Atlantic about how pandemic travel restrictions have affected researchers who typically conduct fieldwork...
Yan: Journalism and Identity

Yan: Journalism and Identity

For many journalists, the profession is an identity, not just a job, writes Wudan Yan (@wudanyan) for Poynter. But that can lead too easily to burnout as writers feel driven to catch each news cycle and work nights and weekends, often for low pay and with poor job...

Silberner: Pressing Research

Numbers. Contacts. Advance notice. Joanne Silberner (@jsilberner), artist-in-residence at the University of Washington, tells scientists exactly what journalists need to tell a research story accurately in her excellent talk on “How to Work with the Press in Reporting...