Will Boston succeed in its ambitious, $4.5 billion proposal to host the 2024 Summer Olympics? Sports fans will have to wait a couple of years for the International Olympic Committee to decide.
But meanwhile, if there’s anything close to the Olympic Games in science journalism, the Boston area has already won it.
Several years ago, Knight Science Journalism at MIT put in a successful bid to host ScienceWriters2015—and now the event is just around the corner.
We couldn’t be more thrilled about the opportunity to welcome the best minds in our profession to Cambridge, and to showcase research and innovation at MIT and other Boston-area institutions.
But to make the meeting a success, we’re going to need all the help we can get from local friends and supporters. So with this note, I wanted to provide some updates about the meeting, and invite the local science writing community to start sharing ideas.
After successful recent conferences in Research Triangle, NC, Gainesville, FL, and Columbus, OH, Science Writers—which, as everyone knows, is an annual joint meeting organized by the National Association of Science Writers and the …