The Jonah Lehrer debacle has spawned a series of debates about popular science writing and journalism. On his blog, neuroscientist and author Daniel Bor recounts various scientific errors Lehrer ...

Science writers usually work in one of four career areas: science journalism, public communications, technical writing in industry, and editing. Science journalists write articles for general ...

The Creative Writing Program is expanding its course offerings this academic year, particularly to include a wider variety of nonfiction workshops. Housed in the English Department, the Creative ...

In fact, after the first morning of the conference, the focus shifted quickly from the past, touched briefly on the present (Cristine Russell, the president of the Council for the Advancement of ...

Science journalism has seen a resurgence during the pandemic. Every day seems to bring a new study, a new paper, a new finding to break down and interpret for readers.

That’s why, as I write this note in 2013, I personally feel very lucky to have ended up making a living as a science writer, but I am very cautious in recommending it to others as a line of work.

Science writing is one of the toughest areas of journalism, and for good reason. We are tasked with taking a highly technical piece of peer-reviewed paper, and converting it into bite-sized pieces ...

Next week, I’ll be chairing a session at the Science Online 2010 conference called Rebooting science journalism in the age of the web. I’ll be shooting the breeze with Carl Zimmer, John Timmer ...

Jon D. Franklin, two-time Evening Sun Pulitzer Prize winner and award-winning author who taught journalism at the University of Maryland, died Jan. 21 at the Hospice of the Chesapeake in Pasadena, … ...

While science writing is a specialty, general assignment reporters need only follow some simple guidelines to avoid mistakes. 1. Don’t sap the very life out of the story.