Twelve journalists have been chosen for the 2022-2023 National Science-Health-Environment Reporting Fellowships (SHERF).
That is the second yr of the fellowship, a collaboration of AHCJ, the Council for the Development of Science Writing and the Society of Environmental Journalists. It presents early-career journalists pursuing — or a powerful curiosity in pursuing — careers in science, well being or environmental reporting, or some mixture of the three.
Funded by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute Division of Science Training and the Gordon and Betty Moore Basis, this system will supply chosen fellows area of interest workshops, personalized webinars, registration and assist to attend nationwide conferences, entry to distinctive assets, {and professional} mentors to help with their profession improvement.
The 2022-23 fellows are:
- Aarón Miguel Cantú, Kind Investigations fellow, local weather reporter, Capital & Foremost, California
- Bella Isaacs-Thomas, digital science reporter, PBS NewsHour, Washington D.C.
- Christian von Preysing-Barry, reporter, KRGV-TV, Texas
- Darian Benson, reporter, Aspect Results Public Media, Indianapolis
- Devi Shastri, well being and medical science reporter, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Wisconsin
- Erin Rode, atmosphere reporter, The Desert Solar, Palm Springs, Calif.
- Jena Brooker, atmosphere reporter, BridgeDetroit, Detroit
- Neel Dhanesha, local weather change reporter, Vox, Washington, D.C.
- Rachel Cohen, reporter, Boise State Public Radio, Idaho
- Sarah True, impartial well being care journalist, Washington, D.C.
- Shantal Riley, impartial well being and environmental journalist, New York
- Zoya Teirstein, workers author, Grist, Brooklyn, NY
Because it did its first yr, the fellowship for 2022-2023 attracted many extremely certified candidates with greater than 90 journalists making use of for the chance.
“Our top notch instantly demonstrated the worth of the fellowship as a result of the fellows got here from so many alternative backgrounds, which contributed to the group’s total consciousness of vital, untold tales on these beats,” mentioned Katherine Reed, AHCJ’s director of schooling and content material. “Their work mirrored the richness of that have, and I’m assured the subsequent group will profit in a lot the identical method.”
