Month: June 2013

  • No reforms in secrecy!

    Just arrived home after the WCSJ in Helsinki and got a hot, very hot Moscow. Not just because of unusual whether: meteorologists say that the air temperature is higher than ever in last 100 years. But it is too hot also because of the news appeared the very last days. It seems the session of…

  • High degrees and low payment – Science Journalism in Austria

    High degrees and low payment – Science Journalism in Austria

    While the community of science journalists – with a very strong presence of EUSJA members – is meeting in Helsinki, Finland, for the 8th world Conference of Science Journalists, the Austrian Association of Education and Science Journalists presented a study on the working and training conditions of Austrian education and science journalists. The study was…

  • Let’s fight back (from the summer 2013 issue of EUSJA News)

    From the Summer 2013 issue of EUSJA news, just out A letter from the President Let’s fight back It’s a worrying precedent. In Australia, where many fine science correspondents have lost their jobs, PhD students are being asked to write science stories from published research papers – for publication in the mainstream media without any…

  • Three days in Copenhagen

    Eleven EUSJA members attended the study trip to Denmark in May 28 – 30. It was the 4-th study trip during 2007 – 2013 years organized in collaboration between EUSJA and ScanBalt (General Secretary Peter Frank). This time science journalists visited Copenhagen to see its health research centers, biotechnology parks. Grazia Seregni, Italian journalist, member…

  • In the heart of the French Alps

    EUSJA journalists are invited to Grenoble, the largest urban area in the French Alps and the leading research centre in France outside Paris. The EUSJA study trip in October will show the diversity of Grenoble’s scientific activity – from molecular biology and ecology to magnetism and nanotechnology. The trip is organized within the context of…