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SUMMARY:Winners Announced for 16th Annual DCSWA Newsbrief Award
DESCRIPTION:For Immediate Release\nMay 1\, 2025 \nContact: newsbriefaward@gmail.com \nWinners Announced for 16th Annual DCSWA Newsbrief Award \n \nWashington\, D.C. — A story investigating the extinction of the woolly mammoth has won the 16th annual D.C. Science Writers Association’s Newsbrief Award. \nLongform journalism often gets the field’s accolades\, but short pieces are the true workhorses of science communication. In the spirit of recognizing these unsung works of excellence\, DCSWA has been offering the Newsbrief Awards since 2009.  \nFor the 2024 Newsbrief Award\, a panel of science communicators judged all entries within a single category\, which honors short science writing in any medium and at any outlet. \nAs this year’s winner\, the judges named Claire Yuan for her story\, “The last woolly mammoths offer new clues to why the species went extinct\,” published in Science News.  \nSaid one judge\, “This story exemplified how modern science can challenge and update what we thought we knew\, and did so in a way that was easy to understand.” \nYuan is a senior at Harvard College studying the History of Science and Chemistry & Physics. Currently a freelance science journalist\, Claire has served as a AAAS Mass Media Fellow at Science News and associate managing editor of The Harvard Crimson. An aspiring physician-writer\, she is passionate in telling stories about science and medicine. \nThe judges also awarded an honorable mention to Maria Temming\, Aaron Tremper\, and Sarah Zielinski of Science News Explores for the TikTok video\, “Could a plant ever eat a person?“.  \n“Amazing use of ‘science fiction meets reality\,'” remarked a judge.  \nTemming is the assistant managing editor of Science News Explores. She has bachelor’s degrees in physics and creative writing from Elon University and a master’s in science writing from MIT. She enjoys covering all fields of science for her day job\, and writing about fandom-related research in her spare time.  \nTremper is the editorial assistant for Science News Explores. He received an M.A. in Journalism from the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism’s Science and Health Reporting program. His stories have also appeared in Science News\, Audubon Magazine\, WABE\, and Spectrum News-NY 1\, among others. Outside of the newsroom\, Tremper volunteers as a certified Virginia Master Naturalist in Arlington\, Fairfax\, and Alexandria counties.  \nZielinski is the print editor of Science News Explores. She has a B.A. in biological sciences from Cornell University and an M.A. in journalism through New York University’s Science\, Health and Environmental Reporting Program. She loves to work on stories about animals and ecology. In her spare time\, she writes and edits science comics. \nThe judges include Anneliese Palmer\, a research professor of science communication at the George Washington University and author of “Hot\, Hungry Planet: The Fight to Stop a Food Crisis in the Face of Climate Change”; Liz Landau\, incoming DCSWA president who is also a freelance writer and leads astrophysics multimedia for NASA via ASRC; Bill Kovarik\, a journalism professor at Radford University who Environmental Health News named among the leading pioneers of environmental journalism; Karl Eisenhower\, managing editor of SciLine\, based at the American Association for the Advancement of Science; and Gabe Castro-Root\, an American University student whose internships at Bloomberg Law and the San Francisco Chronicle focused on health and environmental reporting. \nDCSWA will celebrate the awardees in a ceremony during its DCSWA Professional Development Day on May 3. The winner will receive $300 and a framed certificate. Honorable mention recipients will receive framed certificates. \nEntries by DCSWA members published between Jan. 1 and Dec. 31\, 2024\, were eligible for the award. The D.C. Science Writers Association includes more than 300 science reporters\, editors\, authors\, and public information officers based in the Washington metropolitan area and beyond.  \nDetails on entering the 2025 Newsbrief Award will be available on the DCSWA website by the end of the year. \nPhotos available upon request. \n####
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