The national science journalists’ associations of Switzerland, France and Italy announced their joint proposal for hosting the World Conference of Science Journalists, WCSJ, on 1 – 5 July 2019 in Lausanne, Switzerland. «Our utmost priority is to bring together professionals and students in science journalism and writing from all over the world in order to exchange ideas and skills, to build networks and hence to foster quality science journalismContinue Reading

La decima conferenza mondiale dei giornalisti scientifici (10th World Conference of Science Journalists, WCSJ2017), che si svolgerà a San Francisco, in California, tra il 26 e il 30 ottobre del 2017, ha iniziato a raccogliere le proposte per le sessioni del programma scientifico, “by science writers, for science writers”. We need your help to ensure that the conference program represents your interests. The WCSJ2017 Program Committee invites all scienceContinue Reading

The Early Bird registration for the WCSJ 2013 conference is still open – for a few days! Hurry up. Please spread the word! You can, of course, still register for the conference in June, but it will cost you more. The last day for the Early Bird registration is Friday, 24th of May. Also please spread the word, you are welcome to join the conference even when you areContinue Reading

We are pleased to circulate this announcement by the Finnish colleague Eeva Pitkälä, Conference Director  of the 8th World Conference of Science Journalists (WCSJ) that will take place in Helsinki from June 24 to 28, 2013. Dear colleagues, The first details of WCSJ2013 have now been revealed at a press conference in the AAAS Annual meeting. The next important WCSJ 2013 dates are Call for session proposals, openContinue Reading

The following article, by Swim board member Daniela Ovadia, has just come out in the newsletter of EUSJA. European science journalism was represented at WCSJ 2011 in Doha also by two panelists from Italy: Fabio Turone, who produced a panel on the communication of risk, and myself, in charge of a session on bioethics. Moderated by Wilson Da Silva, editor in chief of Cosmos, the most widely read scienceContinue Reading