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So You Want to Be A Science Writer… NASW Mentorship Program Boston, February 15, 2013 Ivan Oransky, MD Executive Editor, Reuters Health Co-Founder, Retraction Watch Treasurer, Association of Health Care Journalists Acting Director, SHERP, New York University Twitter: @ivanoransky

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Page 1: So you want to be a science writer

So You Want to Be A Science Writer…

NASW Mentorship ProgramBoston, February 15, 2013

Ivan Oransky, MDExecutive Editor, Reuters HealthCo-Founder, Retraction Watch

Treasurer, Association of Health Care JournalistsActing Director, SHERP, New York University

Twitter: @ivanoransky

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How I Got Started

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My First Mistakes

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My Path• Summer internship at local Gannett daily• Med school (working at JAMA, writing op-eds)• Psychiatry internship (writing regular columns for

American Medical News, the Forward)• Freelancing ~ 1 year• First full-time journalism job: Editor-in-Chief of

Praxis Post• Followed by The Scientist, Scientific American,

Reuters Health

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• 95 weekly science sections in newspapers in 1989

Columbia Journalism Review: http://www.cjr.org/currents/hard_numbers_jf2013.php

Who are Today’s Media, Really?

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• 95 weekly science sections in newspapers in 1989

• 34 in 2005

Who are Today’s Media, Really?

Columbia Journalism Review: http://www.cjr.org/currents/hard_numbers_jf2013.php

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• 95 weekly science sections in newspapers in 1989

• 34 in 2005• 19 in 2012

Who are Today’s Media, Really?

Columbia Journalism Review: http://www.cjr.org/currents/hard_numbers_jf2013.php

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Who are Today’s Media, Really?

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Who are Today’s Media, Really?

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Trade Publications

• Specialized magazines, websites

• Typically strong business model

• Have given rise to many lay media careers

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Should You Find a Niche?

• What do you obsess about?

• What do you want to be the “go-to” writer for?

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Start Your Own Blog

http://skepticalscalpel.blogspot.com/

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Start Your Own Blog

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Getting the Word Out

• Use social media, including Twitter

• Forge relationships with other writers and editors you admire

• Don’t be afraid to toot your own horn – but also curate the best work of others

• Distinguish between personal voice and privacy

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Resources

• Organizations (and training): AHCJ, NASW, SEJ

• Science writing/journalism programs: Columbia, CUNY, Hopkins, MIT, NYU, Texas A&M, UC Santa Cruz, UNC-Chapel Hill, others

• AAAS Mass Media Fellowship

• Kaiser Media Internships in Health Reporting

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Contact Info/Acknowledgements

[email protected]

Twitter: @ivanoransky

http://retractionwatch.com

Thanks: Nancy Lapid, Reuters Health


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