An AAAS media/science panel delves into the proper role of media in convincing the public about climate change and explores differing views on what precisely makes news, helping illustrate scientists’ and media’s sometimes vast cultural differences. From the Spring 2011 ScienceWriters,
Science writing news
Dethroning microbes. Farewell, arsenic bug. So long, XMRV.
Rescheduled Rapture. Raptures for the feisty, spunky, plucky little Mars Spirit Rover. Should science writers be in the debunking business? Happy Birthday, Last Word on Nothing. Once more, arsenic bugging.
Competition with Internet blogs could stir science journalists in traditional media to correct systemic faults in science reporting, says John Rennie. An excerpt from the Spring 2011 issue of ScienceWriters.
Dennis Meredith writes that Explaining Research and Working with Public Information Officers are making him more money through workshops and speaking engagements than from sales. Meredith, who created the Marketing and publishing resource on the ScienceWriters web site, offers advice on promotion and self-publishing in the Spring 2011 issue of ScienceWriters magazine, free to NASW members.
The death of Osama bin Laden: genomics, neuroscience, health and medicine, anthropology, media matters.
What's Tumblr? It's the latest social media must-have, according to this post from Jojo Malig at the Poynter Institute. More than 160 news media organizations are using the image-heavy blogging platform. So are individual journalists. But what is it good for, and how do you get started using it? This “Tumblr for journalists” slideshow from Matthew Keys has plenty of quick tips.
The Royal Wedding, Kate and William, William and Kate, and the genetics of inbreeding. Also wed: National Geographic and Scienceblogs.com. Or maybe they're just living together. Temporarily. Autism and childhood vaccines remain wedded in the minds of some. Sigh.
Gary Taubes takes on another dietary foe: Sugar, he declares, is not just empty calories, it causes most of what ails us, even (maybe) cancer. The BP Gulf oil spill a year later: Still an oily residue. New guidelines on early diagnosis for Alzheimer's disease: What's the point, since there's no therapy?
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