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The World Federation of Science Journalists is a nongovernmental international organization representing science journalists associations.  | Future of WFSJ to be discussed in Barcelona |  While scientists and decision-makers will be discussing the latest trends in science, 18-22 July in Barcelona during ESOF2008, the members of theWFSJ Board will be focussing on long-term planning of the World Federation of Science Journalists.
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| | 2008-05-12 |
| DFID to fund research on media |  The United Kingdom’s Department for International Development (DFID) – a major donor to WFSJ’s flagship project SjCOOP – intends to support research on the role media plays in transforming research into policy in developing countries.
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| | 2008-04-24 |
| The Amundsen Competition: Peter`s idea |  Peter Calamai has been The Toronto Star's full-time science reporter since 1998. It was his idea to organize the WFSJ international competition bringing 15 science journalists to directly report from the Arctic during the coming months.
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| 3 Comments | 2008-04-08 |
| Kinga, urukingo, ijova: an injection against HIV |  Lanky veteran science reporter Otula Owuor of Nairobi, Kenya is on his way to the beautiful Ugandan town of Entebbe, on the shores of the largest tropical lake in the world, Lake Victoria. Entebbe's got the green acres of the 110-year-old national botanical gardens, the orphaned chimpanzees and rhinos of the national zoo and near the shoreline, not far from the yachts and hotels, a jumble of white buildings which is the Uganda Virus Research Institute.
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| | 2008-03-18 |
| Aljazeera TV Panel on Science Journalism |  Watch on You Tube a debate on science journalism in the Arab World, held in Doha (Qatar) on Tuesday 5 February 2008.
Panellists included science journalists from Egypt, Africa and Europe who were joined by an Arab scientist and the Editor in Chief of Aljazeera Network. The TV Panel was put together by Nadia El-Awady from Islamonline and held at Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar in collaboration with Aljazeera Network. Shereen El Feki, of Aljazeera International moderated.
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| 1 Comment | 2008-03-18 |
| Iraqi science journalism: against all odds |  They are the three musketeers: Haider Najm, Hadi Alusamy and Kawthar Zubayde, a trio of science journalists from Baghdad, a city where both scientists and journalists share a particular threat: assassination by shadowy gunmen trapped in an endless cycle of revenge and retribution. And that's in addition to the power cuts, the lack of running water, the effort that something like grocery shopping requires, the constant fears for friends and family. Still, deadlines must be met!
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| 1 Comment | 2008-03-06 |
| Guido is on the Amundsen! |  Read and watch the adventures of science journalist Guido Romeo who boarded the research icebreaker Amundsen in the Canadia Arctic on Saturday 23rd February 2008. Mr. Romeo is the first of 15 winners of the Amundsen competition organized by the World Federation of Science Journalists.
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| 5 Comments | 2008-03-04 |
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