“With science under attack, should science journalists get off the sidelines?” This was the question posed by a House of Commons-style debate held at the World Conference of Science Journalists in San Francisco in October. But with the spectre of…
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Science journalism is in the public interest
Professor Joan Leach, who heads up the Australian National Centre for the Public Awareness of Science, wrote a great article for The Conversation about the need for good science journalism in Australia, why science journalism and science communication are different endeavours, and the challenges currently facing science journalists in Australia today:
10 tools to tackle common problems journalists face
From Columbia Journalism Review, 1 March 2017: FEW INDUSTRIES have been as affected by technology as much as journalism. More than just a seismic shift from print to web to mobile devices, news now is gathered with the help of…