Professional Meetings

This fourth annual event, at Columbia College Chicago, will tackle culture change in the newsroom with programs, workshops, talks and clinics. How do you build and protect a newsroom culture that is focused on what makes you essential for your community amid unpredictable social media trends, shifting corporate priorities, and constant cuts? Cost: $25.

Come to New York University, 6:00-8:00 p.m. (or online at 6:30 p.m.), for a conversation about covering epidemics, Ebola and beyond, with Nature reporter Amy Maxmen and Nahid Bhadelia, medical director of BU's Special Pathogens Unit, moderated by Robert Lee Hotz of The Wall Street Journal.

The Environmental Law Institute and collaborators will host this event in Seattle, Washington, to explore innovative and transformative technologies and the unique opportunities and challenges they present to protecting the environment.

This expenses-paid National Press Foundation fellowship in Paris, Oct 21-24, offers US and EU journalists the opportunity to interact with scientific experts and learn better ways to communicate science to the public. The neuroscience of hate, the science of pain, social determinants of health and more will be covered. Includes field trips to scientific institutions. Deadline: Jul 10.

Co-organized by Arena for Journalism in Europe and Hostwriter, this event in Mechelen, Belgium is for investigative and data journalists. Come for training, learn the background of some of this year’s impressive investigations, get new data sets and learn how to use them, or meet colleagues to form a crossborder group.