Stories

Award-winning journalism from the Showcase collection

WCSJ Video Showcase: Story Responses

A video montage composed of excerpts from interviews with award winners. In this video we ask winners to share the responses that their stories received.

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WCSJ Video Showcase: The Biggest Obstacle

A video montage composed of excerpts from interviews with award winners. In this video we ask winners to share the biggest obstacles they have faced as journalists.

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WCSJ Video Showcase: The Moment You Knew

A video montage composed of excerpts from interviews with award winners around the world. In this video we ask winners to share that moment they knew they had a story.

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WCSJ Video Showcase: Elevator Pitches

A video montage composed of excerpts from interviews with award winners. In this video we ask winners to summarize their stories in one or two sentences.

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WCSJ Video Showcase: Advice for Young Science Journalists

A video montage composed of excerpts from interviews with award winners that focuses on their advice for young science journalists.

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Peer Review Post-Mortem: How a Flawed Aging Study was Published in Nature

Hester van Santen
PUBLISHED BY: NRC Media ON December 9, 2017
European Science Writer of the Year

How could an article with numerous shortcomings be published in top-tier journal Nature? Hester van Santen reveals how the gate-keepers of science knowingly let flawed research slip through.

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Gene Drive Gives Scientists Power to Hijack Evolution

Sharon Begley
PUBLISHED BY: STAT ON November 17, 2015
CASW Cohn Prize

As soon as Harvard biologist Kevin Esvelt began reading the scientific paper, he had a desperate question: Who are these guys?

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When the Dust Settles

Eva Hershaw
PUBLISHED BY: Texas Monthly ON September 1, 2016
NASW Science in Society Award

After Texas Tech researchers discovered that windstorms may be spreading antibiotic-resistant bacteria from local feedlots, public health experts stood up and took notice. So did the Texas Cattle Feeders Association.

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Storygram: Amy Maxmen’s “How the Fight Against Ebola Tested a Culture’s Traditions”

Amy Maxmen • October 3, 2017
PUBLISHED BY: National Geographic ON January 30, 2015
NASW Science in Society Award

A great quarrel followed the death of a pregnant Guinean woman in June …

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How A Lone Hacker Shredded the Myth of Crowdsourcing

Mark Harris
PUBLISHED BY: Backchannel ON February 9, 2015
AAAS Kavli Award

Meet Adam. He’s a mid-level engineer at a mid-level software company in a cookie-cutter California office park. …

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