The AAAS Annual Meeting will offer an array of opportunities to reporters and communicators who, with appropriate credentials, are eligible for complimentary meeting registration.  

• Use a work email address for faster verification of eligibility.
• On tab 2 (Code) use ORD to open the Newsroom Application questions on the Demographics page.
• Applications are pended for verification and approval.
• If you are a journalism student, please have a professor or advisor send us an email to confirm you are a current university journalism student (can send list of students if a whole class will be attending. Please use your .edu email address to register.

Please complete newsroom registration by 5PM ET on February 17, 2027 to ensure processing completed before the meeting starts.

NEWSROOM Eligibility

Includes:

Working journalists; public information officers (PIOs), which includes communications professionals staffing speakers; journalism professors and journalism students.

Does not include:

Representatives of lobbying, special interest, or advocacy organizations. Similarly, scientists, advertising or marketing professionals, and investment analysts (even those who have a newsletter or a webpage). Your primary occupation must be either as a journalist or PIO (or you are a journalism student) to qualify for newsroom registration. Those who are ineligible must register as general attendees and pay the appropriate registration fee.

EMBARGO POLICY

AAAS Annual Meeting newsroom registrants are required to observe news embargoes, which coincide with the date and time of the scientific session or media availability (whichever comes first for a given session), or the date and time of a related journal publication, in the case of the embargoed briefings.

For more information, please contact the emails listed below:

Abstracts and synopses of material presented at the AAAS Annual Meeting reflect the individual views of the author and not necessarily those of the AAAS, its Council, Board of Directors, officers, or the views of the institutions with which the authors are affiliated. Presentation of ideas, products, or publications at the AAAS Meeting or the reporting of them in resulting news accounts does not constitute endorsement by AAAS.