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Everyone says science journalism is broken but only journalists seem to lament the cuts in jobs.  Scientists don't respect them, we are told, and the public doesn't trust them so how do we fix ... --> () Everyone says science journalism is broken but only journalists seem to lament ...

Hot Topic - Hank Campbell - Feb 25 2010 - 4:06pm - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Science journalism used to not have that 'science' qualifier.  It was journalism, like any other kind, but about science. Last decade, though, science journalism lost its way, as we ... the field.  The key question seemed to be what the role of science journalism is; whether it should ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Jul 30 2012 - 2:12am - 4 comments - 0 attachments

the analog for science journalism, which aims to bring science to the public. If we were to try to force science journalism into the wholesale-retail-customer stamp, then scientists would be the wholesalers, ... Despite some prima facie similarities, then, science journalism is not currently playing the role ...

Article - Mark Changizi - Feb 25 2010 - 3:54pm - 27 comments

How do we fix science journalism ? Simple: we don't. We let it sink, and be reborn ... to the publishers, constitute a tiny fraction of the consumer world. Science journalism may have started to feel ... of publishing. But as I myself witnessed at the World Conference of Science Journalism held in London last June, ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Mar 10 2010 - 8:21pm - 9 comments

Unlike mainstream journalism, science journalism is under no expectation, feigned or real, to be objective.  Because no one reads science journalism any more.  It's therefore no surprise that every science journalist in an informal analysis of science journalism articles on politics supports President ...

Cool Link - Hank Campbell - Sep 28 2012 - 2:30pm - 0 comments

you how to repair science journalism.  A few wingnuts stalwarts here at Science 2.0 beat ... how to gimmick science journalism.  Remember, science is about asking the right questions, and there are divergent questions implicit in 'fixing science journalism'.  The first is about how and where ...

Article - Alex "Sandy" Antunes - Aug 20 2010 - 3:39pm - 14 comments

Entries are now being accepted for the 2012 AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Awards. The awards ... questions, go to  AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Awards --> () Entries are now being accepted for the 2012 AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Awards. ...

Event - Hank Campbell - May 30 2012 - 10:26am - 0 comments

2015 marks the 350 birthday of the world's first ongoing science journal.  In 1665, ... an unnecessary barrier to entry. If you want to read about the history of the first science journal, go here ... first ongoing science journal. In 1665, Philosophical Transactions pioneered the concepts of scientific ...

Event - Hank Campbell - May 23 2015 - 3:30pm - 0 comments - 0 attachments

man" by The Register has come to the rescue of science journalism with a list of warnings they can ... and re-shaping science journalism ethics are not all he does.  He also does cool projects like The Webcycle - ... has some new science journalism warnings we can al maybe the warning labels should be expanded ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Aug 13 2010 - 1:12pm - 3 comments - 0 attachments

directly to the audience must be insane to endorse big media science journalism, right?    Not at all.  Science journalism is a different beast than what we do here but it still has more commonality than ... I just like his style. Recently he went after science journalism, which prompted a response ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Feb 25 2010 - 3:59pm - 10 comments - 0 attachments