Category: WFSJ Affairs

A graduate student in science journalism from Technische Universität Dortmund in Germany was at the European Science Open Forum in Barcelona a couple of years ago. She met a countryman, Jan Lublinski, and they talked.

The Executive Board of the World Federation of Science Journalists has asked its member associations to allow a change to its voting system. If approved the change would enable any member of affiliated associations to apply to be considered as a candidate for the Board.

Following the Board meeting in Turino, the WFSJ mid-term Report is now available

Canadian science journalists, key donors, and some 40 friends and collaborators, celebrated, on Monday 12th April 2012, the opening of the new offices of the World Federation of Science Journalists, in Gatineau, a city situated in Québec, right beside Ottawa, the capital City of Canada.

The January 2010 bulletin of the WFSJ is now available for download.  In this bulletin, find previews of two important announcements: the 2011 World Conference of Science Journalists and the second phase of project SjCOOP.

 The year 2009 has been an extraordinarily successful year for the World Federation of Science Journalists. For the first time ever...

WFSJ is resurrecting its bulletin. New format. New content. This October edition mainly presents the decisions made by the General Assembly held in London, last July. It also provides an update on the respective responsibilities of the members of the Board. You will also find the list of the members of the two committees that support the Board: the Programme Committee and the Finance Committee.

A total of 30 associations from Africa, the Americas, Asia and Europe participated on the 1st of July 2009, in the General Assembly of the World Federation of Science Journalists (WFSJ), which is held every second year, during the World Conference of Science Journalists.

As science journalist with Argentina’s main newspaper, new WFSJ Vice-President Ms. Valeria Romàn is at the centre of the coverage of one of the most affected region of the world by the AH1N1 virus.

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.

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

This is where to meet the staff of the World Federation of Science Journalists and the two co-directors of the upcoming 6th World Conference of Science Journalists, in the Exhibit Hall of the Hyatt Regency Chicago, during the upcoming Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).

This third iteration of our website is designed to give you a better insight at the world of science journalism, and we mean the whole world!
A few months ago, during a public consultation, you told us you wanted the WFSJ website to connect you to colleagues and other associations all over the world. Not only are we offering new content, but we decided to come with a new look. We hope that these changes will make our website more interesting and easy to navigate.

WFSJ is looking for candidates to fill the position of Coordinator of Mentors. The main task of the Mentors' Coordinator will be to pair mentors with a mentees interested in improving their skills in science journalism.

The members of the WFSJ Board are meeting next July. Their priority is to come up with a strategic plan for the Federation that will be presented at the General Assembly, in June 2009, during the 6th World Conference of Science Journalists, in London (UK).

Speech presented by WFSJ President Pallab Ghosh at the 4th Science and Technology in Society (STS) forum, Kyoto (Japan), 7 - 9 October 2007

The WFSJ website now contain a dedicated section for our member associations. Information about each association, keys activities, memberships, contact person and more are now available.

Jean-Marc Fleury, Executive Director of WFSJ, has been named Chair of the Bell Globemedia Chair in Science Journalism at Laval University (Québec), on 28 August 2007. "The Chair will aim at examining the mediatisation of science at a time when science journalism is undergoing tremendous changes", he said at a ceremony held in Québec City.

Valeria Roman, member of the Board of WFSJ and science journalist with Clarin (Buenos Aires), was selected as one of the 100 best journalists in Argentina by the Konex Foundation. She will receive her award next September.

The Konex Awards were instituted in 1980 to be annually delivered so that the most distinguished Argentine personalities and institutions in every field important to the country's community be an example to Argentina's youth.

Comment on the new preamble for the WFSJ Constitution, get to know the new President and Board members, learn how to download two free full-text publications, find out about association speed dating in Melbourne, and more

Jan Rydman, who was a member of the WFSJ Finance Committee, passed away the 31 March 2007, in Helsinki (Finland). This was a shock for all his colleagues at the World Federation of Science Journalists who have had the great chance to know this wonderful, hard working and charismatic man.

The conferences page was recently updated with upcoming conferences that might be of interest for science journalists.

Pallab Ghosh, new WFSJ President, shares some of his concerns, impressions and what he would like to accomplish during his mandate

Jean-Marc Fleury, executive director of the World Federation of Science journalists, was awarded a “Prix hommage”, by the Quebec Association of Science communicators, ACS, for his lifetime contribution to Science communication. Mr Fleury was one of the founding members of the Quebec association 30 years ago.

The World Federation of Science Journalists website now provide a RSS feed for the headlines of the news section.

The General Assembly of the World Federation of Science Journalists was held in Melbourne (Australia) on 18^th April 2007, during the 5^th World Conference of Science Journalists.

On 18th April 2007, during the 5th World Conference of Science Journalists in Melbourne (Australia), the General Assembly of the World Federation of Science Journalists elects new WFSJ board.

The World Federation of Science Journalists welcomes you to its new web site.

There are many exciting news to report about the WFSJ. Our Peer-2-Peer program is now fully launched. Designed to have a long term impact on science journalism in developing countries, the current Middle-East-African program is the first of its kind, and should serve very soon as a model for other developing regions of the world.

Thanks to the funding of the Mentoring project, see News item: WFSJ launches project in Africa & Middle East, WFSJ is no more only a virtual organization. Since last month, WFSJ has a real office.

As President of the National Association of Science Writers (NASW), Laura van Dam played a key role in making NASW a member of the World Federation of Science Journalists. She was also a strong supporter of the last World Conference of Science Journalists held in Montréal, October 2004, and contributed to make it a success.