With 5,000 journalists accredited by last week to cover the United Nations Climate Change Summit in Copenhagen, this will be one of the most journalists’ populated global meetings in many years.
Standing firm for science journalism is not an easy task. But some of the seasoned and upcoming environment and science journalists in Kenya believe it is something worth doing – and they are doing it. One of their most considered desirable way of doing this is by coming together. That’s why the formation of the Kenya [...]
Recently, in the company of some members of our organisation, The Kenya Environment and Science Journalists Association [KENSJA], I attended a workshop in Nairobi on Making an Impact: Research and Communication. It dealt with communicating more effectively with policy-makers and key audiences, engaging with the media, innovative communication tools one can use, impact making and why [...]
One of the potentially off-putting experiences for a science journalist is establishing space for science journalism. This, in most circumstances, is more discouraging to those budding as freelancers and folks in mainstream non-specialised media. Often it requires one to be an intelligent, tough go-getter. But there are several ways, I reckon, with which this can [...]
Hard and uninteresting stuff! Not really. Quite often a science journalist comes across research papers couched in difficult boring language – the sort of an essay you are tempted to only see as meant for the converted. But a keen look at the topic, even from a short abstract presentation, gives you an idea into [...]
Many a times I have been asked about the viability of science journalism in Kenya and Africa at large from both journalists – the ones practicing it and journalists in other areas like business and politics – and folks outside the profession. To many skeptics, science and its products like research, patents, innovations are not [...]
