Winners of the annual Association of British Science Writers Awards (ABSW) were announced on Saturday 23 July at a ceremony at Jodrell Bank’s bluedot festival.
And the winners were…..
European Science Writer of the Year 2016
Winner: Spanish Science Writer of the Year, Michele Catanzaro, a freelance science journalist nominated by Asociacion Española de Comunicacion Cientifica, AECC (Spanish Association of Scientific Communication) & Associació Catalana de Comunicació Científica – ACCC (Catalan Association for Science Communication, Spain)
Highly Commended: French Science Writer of the Year, Stéphane Foucart, a Journalist for the daily French newspaper Le Monde nominated by Association des journalistes scientifiques de la presse d’information
Other Country nominees (each nominee becomes science writer of the year in their nominating country)
Austrian Science Writer of the Year – Elisabeth Schneyder, freelance, nominated by the Austrian Association of Education and Science Journalists
Danish Science Writer of the Year – Jens Ramskov, Journalist at Ingeniøren, nominated by the Danish Science Journalists Association
Dutch Science Writer of the Year – Aliette Jonkers, freelance, nominated by VWN, the Dutch national association for science journalism and communication
Estonian Science Writer of the Year – Arko Olesk, freelance, nominated by the Estonian Association of Science Journalists
Greek Science Writer of the Year – Spiros Kitsinelis, science communicator, nominated by Science View (Greece)
Irish Science Writer of the Year – Claire O’Connell, freelance, nominated by the Irish Science & Technology Journalists’ Association (ISTJA)
Serbian Science Writer of the Year – Slobodan Bubnjevic, Editor-in-chief, ELEMENTI, nominated by Mreza Naucnih Novinara, Serbia (The Science Journalist Network)
UK Science Writer of the Year – Steve Connor, freelance (former science editor the Independent), nominated by the Association of British Science Writers
ABSW Science Writers’ Awards for Britain and Ireland 2016 (links to winning pieces are provided where available)
Best feature
Natasha Loder, The age of the red pen: It is now easy to edit the genomes of plants, animals and humans, published in the Economist, 22/08/2015
Best news item
Michael Le Page, Earth now halfway to warming limit, published in New Scientist, 01/08/2015
Best scripted/edited television programme or online video
Joint Winners
Team entry: BBC Science Series Editor: Steve Crabtree. Series Producer: Paul King. Producer and Director: Peter Leonard. Researcher:Claudia Woolston. Horizon – OCD: A monster in my mind. First broadcast BBC Two 26/08/2015
Team entry: Director: Thom Hoffman. Producer: Lizzie Crouch. Animator: Patrick Koduah. Animator: Victor Opeyokun. Malaria: How can changing the built environment reduce cases? First broadcast Health Check on BBC World News TV 11/05/2015
The Royal Society Radio Prize (NB: A prize for the best scripted/edited radio programme or podcast, supported by The Royal Society):
Team: Writer and presenter: James Piercy. Producer: Toby Murcott. My Head. Pier Production for BBC Radio 4 and World Service. First broadcast 06/05/20
Best investigative journalism
Team entry: Maria Cheng & Raphael Satter. Botching Ebola, published by Associated Press, 20/03/2015
The NUJ Stephen White Award for best communication and reporting of science in a non science context. This Award is made in memory of Stephen White a highly influential science communicator who sadly died in 2010. The Award is possible due to a donation from Stephen’s widow Elizabeth.
Jennie Agg. Inside the metabolism room published in the Good Health section, Daily Mail 29/12/2015
Best newcomer
Faye Kirkland, Freelance
Best student science blog
Sophie McManus, University of Cambridge. Women in Science – A Call to Arms. Biodetectives 09/03/2015
Dr Katharine Giles Science blog award. In memory of Dr Katharine Giles, NERC Research Fellow and Lecturer at the Centre for Polar Observation and Measurement (CPOM) at UCL.
Alex Bellos, Alex Bellos’s Adventures in Numberland, The Guardian
The IOP student science publication award supported by IOP Publishing and the Institute of Physics
Winner
TheGIST– The Glasgow Insight into Science and Technology, University of Glasgow/University of Strathclyde
Runner-up
The Young Scientists Journal, Herts and Essex High School
Lifetime Achievement Award 2016
Deborah Cohen, Editor BBC Radio Science Unit
The awards are supported by Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson
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