The UBC School of Journalism is hosting a conference over the weekend on Future Directions in Science Journalism. It brings together journalists and scientists to discuss how to improve the understanding of science through research, teaching, and public discussion. I have the great privilege of delivering the keynote on Friday evening, Reimagining Science Journalism. I will post the full text over the weekend but this abstract will provide a flavour
PDF Many journalists are wary of blogs. The usual complaint is that there are millions of blogs out there and most of there are catering for an audience of one. But this misses the point of how the blogging format can be used in journalism. I recently suggested to the Knight New Media Center at USC Annenberg that it should use a blog to cover a conference on science journalism online.
The messy nature of the internet is proving a hard concept for some of the veteran science journalists at the Knight New Media Center’s workshop on science journalism. One issue that was raised during the morning sessions was how people stumble across science news. The argument goes that in print, readers would come across science stories by chance as they flicked through the paper. But online, do you remove this
This week I’m in Los Angeles for a series of workshops on science journalism, organised by the Knight New Media Center at the University of Southern California. The focus for this event is reporting science on the web. The aim is to come up with best practices for covering science online. Things kicked off Sunday night with dinner and a speech by Donald Kennedy, editor-in-chief of Science. Among the topics