by Ashley Braun | Oct 19, 2016 | News
The Northwest Science Writers Association is pleased to announce the winners of our 2016 career development awards: Freelance journalists Wudan Yan and Chris Solomon. Wudan is an early-career journalist who moved to Seattle at the beginning of 2016, but her location...
by Matt Vivion | Dec 11, 2015 | News
We have a highly-qualified slate this year. Please vote carefully. There are four officers, who are running without opposition for their positions. There are six candidates for the remaining five At-Large positions (You can vote for up to five of the six candidates.)...
by Matt Vivion | Dec 11, 2014 | News
We have a highly-qualified slate this year. Please vote carefully. There are four officers, who are running without opposition for their positions. There are five candidates for the remaining five at-large positions. Some of these are new candidates and some are board...
by Matt Vivion | Sep 29, 2014 | News
On a hot and sticky evening in early September, the first day of the Society of Environmental Journalists’ annual conference, Geoff Morrell, Senior Vice President of U.S. Communications and External Affairs for BP, took the stage in a ballroom at the Hilton New...
by Matt Vivion | Sep 22, 2014 | News
When I decided to freelance full-time roughly a year ago, it felt not merely like walking a tightrope without a net, but improvising a full-scale trapeze act without any training in acrobatics. Advice for freelancers (some of it useful and some hackneyed) litters the...
by Matt Vivion | Jun 6, 2014 | News
The bumpy descent into Santa Fe airport, aboard a 50-seat SkyWest Bombardier CRJ200, reflected the road I have taken towards becoming a science writer. I first heard about the Santa Fe Science Writers workshop last July, when I applied for the Northwest Science...