The Canadian Science Writers’ Association offers $1,000 awards annually to honour outstanding writing in Canadian: print and broadcast media.
Print entries must have appeared in a Canadian publication aimed at the general public. Broadcast entries must have been aired on a cable or broadcast system licensed in Canada.
These awards are presented for original material disseminated – in French or English print or broadcast – during the 2011 calendar year. The awards will be presented at CSWA’s 41st annual conference in Windsor.
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The Canadian Science Writers’ Association and EurekAlert!, the global-science news service for journalists, are pleased to announce the recipients of travel awards to attend the 2012 AAAS Annual Meeting (www.aaas.org/meetings), 16-20 February in Vancouver, B.C., Canada.
EurekAlert!, the online science news service sponsored by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), is providing travel awards of up to $1,000, to 17 science journalists and 3 journalism students, each from Canada. The travel awards will help cover the cost of attending the 2012 AAAS Annual Meeting. The awards are intended to help support excellence in science communication worldwide by providing science reporters with the
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Please join me in welcoming Janice Benthin to the position of CSWA Administrative Director.
Based in Montreal, Janice has a diverse background in scriptwriting, media production and nonprofit management.
Her management experience includes a five-year stint as training director for the Inuit Broadcasting Corporation in Iqaluit, Executive Director for the International Centre of Films for Children and Young People and Director of Operations for the Grande Prairie Educational Cable Consortium.
For many members of CSWA, it might feel like a lifetime since a team sat down in 2004 to consider candidates to replace Andy Visser-deVries as the organization’s Administrative Director – a post he had occupied so long that any preceding period practically faded from living memory.
Indeed, the last seven years qualify as well as a lifetime in the history of CSWA: an era that has seen unprecedented progress in the direction and momentum of the Association.
That progress is linked directly to the hiring of outgoing Executive Director Kristina Bergen to fill the large shoes Andy left behind. She did much more than fill them
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