If you regularly do a Twitter search for the words “science journalism,” like I do, you’ll be amazed, amused and sometimes shocked by the amount of bashing science journalism takes in the Twittersphere. It shows that not all science journalism is created equal, and it’s a sign of the times, really: Not all journalists who [...]
This article was written by Chao-Ping Hong (Taiwan), a Master student in the science journalism course at Delft University of Technology. Her assignment was to write an opinion article about the influence of citizen journalism on science journalism. I hope her fresh take will inspire you. Twitter, hyperlinks, comments. Type, click, and send. Without doubt, [...]
“In this world of ours now, to be an informed participant in the great conversation of mankind is to have an alert awareness and understanding of what’s happening in the world.”
Journalism and New Media students at Leiden University and Fontys School of Journalism in Tilburg, both in the Netherlands, scrutinised media reports last year, functioning as fact checkers. Their supervisors Alexander Pleijter, Peter Burger and Theo Dersjant wrote a contribution for the recently published anthology ‘Journalism brought into discredit’ produced by the Catholic Institute for [...]
Still haven’t registered for the World Conference of Science Journalists 2009? Co-director Julie Clayton tells the Science Journalism blog why you should join her and many other science journalists this summer in London. What is the World Conference of Science Journalists all about? Who is behind the World Conference of Science Journalists? What’s on the [...]
Balance, i.e. juxtaposing different opinions on a topic with equal weight in a journalistic article, is a hot topic in science journalism. Balance is a golden rule in journalism, but it’s validity in science journalism is debatable. Four Master students in my science journalism course at Delft University of Technology have written an opinion article about this topic. These students were inspired by (scientific) literature they gathered on the use and validity of balance, and its consequences. I hope their fresh take inspires you.
Marc Pagen (The Netherlands) argues that balance is not the problem, but lazy reporting is.
Balance, i.e. juxtaposing different opinions on a topic with equal weight in a journalistic article, is a hot topic in science journalism. Balance is a golden rule in journalism, but it’s validity in science journalism is debatable. Four Master students in my science journalism course at Delft University of Technology have written an opinion article about this topic. These students were inspired by (scientific) literature they gathered on the use and validity of balance, and its consequences. I hope their fresh take inspires you.
Kurian Joseph Kattukaren (India) argues that accuracy is more capable of filtering out the scientific fringe than balance.
Balance, i.e. juxtaposing different opinions on a topic with equal weight in a journalistic article, is a hot topic in science journalism. Balance is a golden rule in journalism, but it’s validity in science journalism is debatable. Four Master students in my science journalism course at Delft University of Technology have written an opinion article about this topic. These students were inspired by (scientific) literature they gathered on the use and validity of balance, and its consequences. I hope their fresh take inspires you.
Roelof van den Berg (The Netherlands) argues that science journalists need to use online media to share sources and make conflicting interests of scientists public.
Balance, i.e. juxtaposing different opinions on a topic with equal weight in a journalistic article, is a hot topic in science journalism. Balance is a golden rule in journalism, but it’s validity in science journalism is debatable. Four Master students in my science journalism course at Delft University of Technology have written an opinion article about this topic. These students were inspired by (scientific) literature they gathered on the use and validity of balance, and its consequences. I hope their fresh take inspires you.
Katherine Celler (Canada) argues that accuracy trumps balance in science journalism.
Embargoes are “strange beasts”, noted ITN’s health and science editor Lawrence McGinty at the annual general meeting of the Association of British Science Writers (ABSW) in London earlier this week. Few branches of journalism are so familiar with, or shackled by, embargoes as science journalism. Every self-respecting journal appears to implement them, and most science [...]
