The association of science writers in Italy has launched an online survey entitled “Know thyself, science writer” asking science journalists from all over the world to help define the situation of science journalism. According to its publisher, Fabio Turone, president of Science Writers in Italy (SWIM), the purpose of the survey is “to collect information about a profession lacking clear borders.”

WFSJ will announce the 7 winners of trips to Norway during the AAAS meeting, in Vancouver
Join Vesa Niinikangas, President of the World Federation of Science Journalists, and Nils Christian Stenseth, the President of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, Saturday 18 February 2012 at 4:30 p.m. for a Wine-and-Cheese Reception in the Reporters' Coffee Lounge area outside the Technology Workroom (Room 301) in the Vancouver Convention Centre.

At the beginning of the year, on 25 February 2011, Violet Otindo, a reporter and producer at Kenyan television (channel K24), revealed a shortage of free condoms in northern Kenya. Her story triggered a huge media echo, a news conference by the Health Minister, national and international media attention, an intense public debate, all the way to a debate in Parliament. Violet Otindo is a mentee in the SjCOOP project and the external evaluators monitoring the impact of mentees’ stories have documented how a Kenyan journalist can make a difference.

If you regularly do a Twitter search for the words "science journalism," like I do, you'll be amazed, amused and sometimes shocked by the amount of bashing science journalism takes in the Twittersphere. It shows that not all science journalism is created equal, and it's a sign of the times, really: Not all journalists who write…Read this post >>

The WFSJ is looking to recruit an experienced and dynamic Executive Director to provide day to day leadership for the Federation’s secretariat and to work closely with the Board to develop broad support for WFSJ vision and programs.

The stress in the relationship between journalists and public relations professional was the topic of a heated but good-humoured debate in Flagstaff, Arizona at the National Association of Science Writers' annual meeting in 14 – 18 October 2011.

Christina Scott was a pillar of African science journalism. She excelled in her career as a journalist. She also gave to her colleagues and to science journalism without any bounds and limits. She contributed in a decisive way to the success of the first SjCOOP project of the World Federation of Science Journalists.

You can contribute to Christina's memorial which will be celebrated Saturday (5th Nov.) by sending your message to: remembering.christina.scott@gmail.com

Read the obituary written by her colleagues member of the South African Science Journalists’ Association of which she was the second president: Hamba Khale, Christina

Read the article from the Nigerian science journalist Alex Abutu published in AfricaSTI: Christina Scott: Africa's foremost science journalist dies

When WPK, the German Science Journalists’ Association, planned to celebrate its 25th anniversary, its board chairman Martin Schneider saw a nuclear irony.