Jurnalism de știință – Comunicare științifică

May 24, 2022

Why journalists don't send their articles to researchers beforehand

You may have given a press interview on a research topic. You wanted to make sure everything was understood correctly, so you asked the journalist to send you the article before it appeared. You were unexpectedly refused. And it just doesn't seem right. Sound familiar?

May 21, 2022

Who pays the price for bad science communication

When she asked [the researcher -nm] to explain more about cells, he gave her a book he had published [...] He told her she would learn everything she wanted to know from it.

January 4, 2021

The experts' catalogue - a more effective promotional tool than you might think

Abroad, most universities and research institutions have a public register of experts, which the press can call upon whenever they need a relevant and knowledgeable voice to explain or comment on a topic of public interest.

November 29, 2020

Online dialogue: How and why we promote research

Where do research and public curiosity meet? Who is the science audience in Romania? What are the reasons, but also the reluctance of researchers to talk...

September 29, 2020

How could we give international visibility to Romanian research? A Pulitzer Prize-winning science journalist's answer

English-language communication and collaborations between local and international journalists would be key to improving the visibility of research from countries with more modest results, believes Deborah Blum, Pulitzer Prize-winning science journalist and director of the Knight Science Journalism Programme at MIT.

April 6, 2020

Romanian research on COVID19 - List of scientific articles (Selection)

For a few weeks now, I have been following what is published on COVID 19 in Romania. I have opened a list of scientific papers, which I will try to keep updated

Science journalism

April 2, 2020

Journalist is an ally in science communication

Although researchers and journalists often see themselves as being on different sides of the fence, they actually have a lot in common. We used to say that in science communication, there are...

Science journalism

March 10, 2020

For journalists: how to find experts for a story

BrainMap is a kind of Facebook, but with researchers. Perhaps its intention is more to connect experts with each other. There was a need for such a tool because even researchers (sometimes even from the same university!) find it hard to find each other, when someone in the sociological area needs a project partner in, say, physics. But it is also a good tool for journalists and this is what I want to focus on now.

January 31, 2020

Three filters to avoid communicating pseudoscience by mistake

This text is intended as a basic assessment tool for deciding whether a piece of information is credible enough to be turned into either a press release (by a press office) or an article (for journalists). I'll exemplify the ideas on the earthquake prediction news, because it's an interesting case.

Category: Science journalism