Online
28 February 2023

Each new wave of Covid brings fresh attempts to mislead, deceive and/or control the narrative. This webinar will explore the strategies being used to clean the information ecosystem and tools to equip journalists and newsrooms for the ongoing battle for truth.

Global eSummit: Journalism and the Climate Crisis

Online
22-23 February 2022

The Global eSummit, spread over five online sessions across two days, will look at particular challenges

1. Storytelling heroes:  a focus on newsrooms successfully making sense of climate change for their audiences – across all beats and despite resource challenges.
2. Paying for climate change coverage: amid scarce resources, how are newsrooms growing and monetising their climate coverage?
3. Extreme collaboration:  one way to improve your climate coverage and the authority of your journalism is through partnerships. Ideas on how to do it.
4. Training and resources: climate touches all beats, all journalists, all editors. Where and how can you access training for all your staff.
5. Newsroom organisation: climate, like the pandemic, has shown the value of being prepared for ongoing science, health and environmental stories. How do you organise resources and workflow for responsive, specialist and sustainable coverage

Training Workshops: Temasek Foundation – WAN-IFRA Journalism Programme: Challenge of the Climate Crisis

Online
16 September – 28 October 2021

The global climate crisis poses a huge challenge not just for humanity, but also for journalists who will need to help audiences make sense of the environmental changes around them and its related implications. Through this programme delivered by experienced editors and journalist trainers, nominated journalists will be able to have a better grasp of the climate crisis; assess, understand, and interpret the science behind it; learn skills to tell their stories in a compelling way while addressing social impacts and possible solutions; and develop their personal reporting projects.

This programme consists of six live and online modules held weekly over six weeks.

Webinar: Dia:gram Media Forum – Patient Care Readiness in Asia Pacific

Online
8 September 2021

COVID-19 has forever changed the way diseases can be prevented, detected, and managed – transforming the role of patients as passive receivers of care and placing them at the centre of their health journeys. In this virtual event, a panel of distinguished speakers will discuss what it means to be patient care-ready in Asia Pacific, including trends and insights into the forces transforming care delivery across health systems, whether patients are ready and equipped to embrace a more central role in their own care, and the future of healthcare and role of stakeholders in designing a truly patient-centric and sustainable ecosystem.

This media-only event is held in collaboration with the Dia:gram Media Forum by Roche Diagnostics.

Masterclass: Understanding endemic diseases: will COVID-19 ultimately become one?

Online
4 August 2021

Amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, many questions abound as to how the disease will mutate and what an endemic will mean for all aspects of life. This masterclass helps editors and journalists both with experience and little or no formal Science training to understand the implications of COVID-19 becoming endemic, so that they are able to formulate story ideas around this topic, confidently write and edit in-depth reports on the latest developments, as well as explain difficult concepts and new diagnostic and management techniques can help in disease control and improved patient care.

This masterclass is held in collaboration with the Dia:gram Media Forum by Roche Diagnostics.

Webinar: Dia:gram Media Forum – Asia Pacific’s true test begins now: Can digital health policies deliver?

Online
31 March 2021

Digital health has taken a quantum leap during COVID-19 but the pace of innovation has not necessarily been matched by health policy updates. In this virtual event, leading health experts and clinicians share how innovators and regulators in Asia Pacific can collaborate to capitalise on opportunities for timely digital transformation in the region, and how Asia Pacific can prepare for a digitally capable workforce to create a digitally sustainable ecosystem that expands beyond the “walls” of care.

This media-only event is held in collaboration with the Dia:gram Media Forum by Roche Diagnostics.

Summit: Science in the Newsroom Global Summit 2020

Online
23 – 24 November 2020

Global health emergencies look set to be a part of our lives and one thing that is for sure is that the media has an important role to play in providing accurate and evidence-based information through COVID-19 coverage. In this virtual event framed by top scientists, editors and journalists will look at how to prepare for worse crises through lessons learnt from SARS and 2020, how to tell stories with impact, how to bolster your evidence-based journalism when misinformation is rife, and how to build specialists skills in the newsroom when budgets are tight.

This event consists of four 90-minute sessions held over two days, and is made possible by the Temasek Foundation in Singapore.

Webinar: Dia:gram Media Forum – The inevitability of pandemics: Is Asia Pacific prepared?

Online
12 November 2020

The weaknesses of the healthcare system are laid bare each time the world is struck by an infectious disease outbreak and Asia Pacific must urgently address these weaknesses, because COVID-19 will not be the last pandemic. In this virtual event, the region’s top clinicians, public health experts, and academics will discuss lessons learnt from COVID-19 and what it will take to be prepared for the next outbreak, how clinical practice is adapting in a world where outbreaks are common, and what more can be done to integrate labs into the healthcare system.

This media-only event is held in collaboration with the Dia:gram Media Forum by Roche Diagnostics.

Training Workshops: Building Journalist Skills for Future Health Crises

Online
4 – 27 August 2020

It is not easy to report on the climate crisis, environmental, and sustainability-related issues because specific science-writing skills and knowledge are required. That is why this programme is organised – to equip journalists with the ability to do so confidently as they perform their roles in making climate challenges and solutions relevant to everyday audiences. Through this programme, nominated journalists will learn to recognise and analyse the central challenges in covering the climate crisis, identify a personal toolkit of skills and knowledge they can use to approach and cover related topics in the future, and develop their personal reporting projects.

This programme consists of six live and online modules held weekly over six weeks, and is made possible by the Temasek Foundation in Singapore.

Masterclass: Keeping the Facts Straight

Online
15 October 2018

For newsroom managers and journalists covering Science, Health, and Consumer Affairs, this workshop in Singapore is organised to discuss related issues including challenges that journalists and newsrooms face when reporting on such topics; best practices and guidelines when covering niche subject matters and specific beats by drawing on the experiences and inputs of participants; and finding solutions for a more frictionless, accurate, and engaging reporting process.

Publish Asia

Novotel Singapore On Stevens, Singapore
7^th May 2019

If you’re a science, health or consumer affairs editor or journalist, you’re invited to attend a complimentary masterclass by the World Editors Forum in Singapore on May 7 called “Science in the Newsroom: Keeping the Facts Straight”. It is an interactive workshop to tackle the specific challenges around science and health journalism, identify credible and reliable sources of medical and scientific information and how to debunk hoaxes, and develop workflows for fast, accurate and engaging reporting. This is the second and final run of this masterclass which was first held in London last October at the British Library