The Science Journalist Online: Shifting Roles and Emerging Practices
Science journalists in the US and UK face unique pressures adapting to the social and participatory nature of online news, to economic conditions that force them to fill a diversity of roles in the newsroom, and to the many hats they must wear if they are to survive as freelancers. As a consequence, science journalists…
Article at Nature Chemistry Reviews Strategies for Public Engagement
The communication of chemistry to wider society is difficult because of ‘chemophobia’, its inherent complexity and its lack of unifying grand themes, explain Matt Hartings and Declan Fahy in an article this week at Nature Chemistry. They recommend that in order to engage with citizens about the benefits and related dangers of the field, chemists…
