Category: Science journalism
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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?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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