Author: Satu Lipponen

  • 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…

  • The passionate: interview with Angela Posada-Swafford

    From the Spring 2013 issue of EUSJA news Angela Posada-Swafford is one of Latin America’s leading science journalists. From Miami, the Colombian writes for the North- and South American as well as the European media. She will be part of the EUSJA workshop “Blood Infusion for Staggering Science Journalism” at the World Conference of Science…

  • Ministers in South-East Europe urged to support science journalism

    Ministers in South-East Europe urged to support science journalism

    From the Spring 2013 issue of EUSJA news UNESCO’s Venice Office is behind a new drive to get science journalism on the agenda of science ministers in the Balkans. A two-day UNESCO meeting in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina (22-23 November 2012) brought together experts, including science journalists and EUSJA members, to draft and present a…

  • A Science Media Centre for ERA? / Why science journalists must be vigilant

    A Science Media Centre for ERA? / Why science journalists must be vigilant

    From the Spring 2013 issue of EUSJA news A Science Media Centre for ERA? The UK Science Media Centre (SMC) has just celebrated its 10th anniversary and is widely acclaimed for its positive role in (re)engaging the media with science and acting as an intermedi- ary between the research community and journalists. The SMC concept…

  • Keep up with change – a letter from the President

    Keep up with change – a letter from the President

    From the Spring 2013 issue of EUSJA news I am sure most of you know that the UK’s BBC has been under attack for what has been described by the chairman of the BBC Trust, Sir Chris Patten, as “its shoddy journalism”. He says that the worldwide reputation the Corporation achieved for its first class…