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LESS THAN 2 WEEKS LEFT! #BlackInSciComm week is October 4 - 10

9/17/2020

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If you’re not following @BlackInSciComm yet, we invite you to head over to Twitter and do so! We’ll wait...

Organized by @ravenscimaven, #BlackInSciComm week is October 4 - 10 and the SciTalk blog is getting ready to publish some great interviews with Black science communicators.
Follow @BlackInSciComm on Twitter
Feel free to pitch relevant stories by emailing blog@sciencetalk.org. We’re looking for material for well past October 10th as well.

Also be sure to follow @BlackInSTEMEd. #BlackinSTEMEducation Week is September 27 - October 3.

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Cold Calling and Cold Feet: Phone Interviews for Science Journalism

9/3/2020

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By Amy Nippert @nippert_r
​Edited by Christina M. Swords (Marvin)​
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As a freelancer in a pandemic, calling sources is a crucial part of my career. As a millennial who grew up in an age of instant messaging, calling sources is also a stressful part of my writing. I don’t hate talking on the phone, but the less well I know the person on the other end, the more intrusive and awkward it feels. Part of me wishes I could just text my sources. But I can’t, and phone calls provide an organic conversation in a way that texting or emails do not. Resigned in the knowledge that calling sources is going to be the normal process for a while, I’ve been thinking about why I find it so stressful and how to ameliorate some of those feelings. 


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