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The World Federation of Science journalists elected a new board during its General Assembly held during the World Conference of Science Journalists in London. Nadia El-Awady was acclaimed president, following tradition that a science journalist representing the host country of the next WCSJ, becomes president of the federation.

The next World Conference of Science journalists will be held in Cairo, Egypt, following a successful bid by Arab and American science journalism associations. The winners of the 2011 event - the Arab Science Journalists Association and the U.S.-based National Association of Science Writers – will bring the prestigious bi-annual conference to Cairo for the first time.

Speech by Pallab Ghosh, President of the World Federation of Science Journalists, delivered on 30th June 2009, at the Opening at Tea Party of the 6th World Conference of Science Journalists, London, United Kingdom

The Chinese version of the WFSJ online course in science journalism is the sixth language version of the 8-lesson, free course in science journalism.

WFSJ has just published the report on its last two-year period, under the present Board led by its President Pallab Ghosh, BBC Science Correspondent.

In preparation for the 6th World Conference of Science Journalists opening Tuesday 30th June 2009 in London (United Kingdom), Nature Magazine has put together a dossier on science journalism.

The Carpathian Mountains are Europe’s biggest deal in high ground and they are where Ukrainian journalist Hanno Hopko’s lifelong concern for the environment first awakened.

This summer, the World Federation of Science Journalists will launch SjPod, a series of discussions with leading science journalists from around the world. Each interactive podcast allows the WFSJ community to learn from an expert’s experience.

An editorial in the latest issue of Science provides a balanced perspective on the challenges facing science journalism in the industrialized world, and the opportunities for its expansion in the developing world.

When Weixiao Chen gets to WCSJ 2009 it will be the most recent stop in her young life’s journey from a small village in Fuijan Province to Beijing, with a trip to Sweden along the way.

SjCOOP, the flagship project of the World Federation of Science Journalists, has ended. Read the final report of the three-year project in peer-to-peer mentoring in science journalism in Africa and in the Arab World and meet its key actors.

As he was preparing for WCSJ 2009, Matthew Cawood was half way through a 4,000-kilometre road trip around south-eastern Australia reporting on drought, and things were looking up.

Science journalists who mentor other science journalists can now benefit from the experience of the three-year SjCOOP peer to peer mentoring project of the World Federation of Science Journalists.

Four countries are competing to host the 7th World Conference of Science Journalists in 2011. As a statement on the growth of science journalism in the developing world, three of the bidders are from the developing world while the fourth is from Europe.  (This posting is a modification of the 3rd June posting on the same topic).

The World Conference of Science Journalists begins June 29 in London, United Kingdom. This is the first of a series of portraits of science journalists who will be there.

Here’s the deal for a student of science journalism who knows she’s going to be looking for work soon. She’s been writing stories for her profs for two or three years. She’s onto the game. She’s doing well. But when she goes knocking on the doors of potential employers, they want to see work that’s been published or broadcast or been online.

The World Federation of Science Journalists is proud to launch the Portuguese version of its 8-lesson free online course in Science Journalism. With versions available in Arabic, English, French and Spanish, this is the fifth version of the online course. Watch this site for the Chinese version!

Since 7^th January 2009, China has a new magazine, Science News Bi-weekly, aimed at reviewing the science funding and policy scene for the benefits of its growing national community of scientists and researchers.

Traffic is increasing to the WFSJ web site: 33% more visitors during the last two months, now reaching one thousand visits a week.

IMPORTANT CORRECTION: only bids for the 2011 World Conference of Science Journalists will be reviewed by the Board of the World Federation of Science Journalists, Monday 29th June, in London, United Kingdom.

There’s a new voice in science reporting coming out of Kenya but taking all of Africa for its beat. Up and running only since June 2008, Science Africa, is a work of a Nairobi editorial team under the direction of Otula Owuor, who started working on it as he was winding down his part in a WFSJ mentoring project. The mentoring had a strong part in his inspiration.

The world’s Spanish-speaking peoples number close to a billion, a huge audience for responsible science journalism. Horacio Salazar, a newspaper reporter and editor with Milenio Diario in Monterrey, Mexico has spent much of his career soaking up English...

The worldwide status of science journalism is a mixture of good and bad news. While a recent Nature article focuses on the decline of science journalism in Europe and North America, science journalism is making headways in Africa, in the Arab World, in Asia and in Latin America.

By George Claassen  (South Africa) -- The newly established South African Science Journalists’ Association (SASJA) hosted 23 science journalists from 13 African countries for a weeklong conference and workshop between 22 and 27 February 2009 in Stellenbosch near Cape Town. Co-hosts were Stellenbosch University’s Department of Journalism and the Danish ministry of Climate and Energy.

Pallab Ghosh, President of the World Federation of Science Journalists, speaks about the upcoming World Conference of Science Journalists and the changes buffeting the profession of science journalism.