Latest Past Events

Agenda Set for DCSWA Professional Development Day 2025!

DCSWA PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT DAY 2025 (PDD 2025) George Washington University, Student Center Saturday, May 3, 2025     8:30 a.m. - 4:15 p.m. ET REGISTER AT: https://dcswa.wildapricot.org/event-6148947   AGENDA Time Grand Ballroom, 3rd floor Room 309 8:30 - 9:00 am Registration check-in: Grab some coffee and breakfast pastries before we get started 9:00 - 9:30 am Opening […]

Registration Now Open for DCSWA Professional Development Day, May 3

George Washingon University Student Center 800 21st Street, NW, Washington DC

Professional Development Day (PDD), a career development and networking event for science writers, has been DCSWA’s signature happening since 2006. Every year, over 100 science reporters, PIOs, editors, radio and video producers, and freelancers gather for a fun and exciting day of networking, collaboration, and skill-building. Please join us for PDD 2025 on Saturday, May […]

Winners Announced for 16th Annual DCSWA Newsbrief Award

For Immediate Release May 1, 2025 Contact: newsbriefaward@gmail.com Winners Announced for 16th Annual DCSWA Newsbrief Award Washington, D.C. — A story investigating the extinction of the woolly mammoth has won the 16th annual D.C. Science Writers Association’s Newsbrief Award. Longform journalism often gets the field’s accolades, but short pieces are the true workhorses of science […]