Category: Debate

  • Shooting Star: Easy-To-Read – How to Write it

    Shooting Star: Easy-To-Read – How to Write it

    It’s a real shooting star: The new writing format emerges wherever you look throughout Europe and the world. With new job opportunities for science journalists! At the European Conference of Science Journalists ECSJ 2017 in Copenhagen, Hamburg-based trainer Ilse Furian showed examples from Germany, UK, Sweden. RAPID TEXT NAVIGATION She explained why an increasing percentage…

  • Make scientific facts great again. What Europe can do about it!

    Make scientific facts great again. What Europe can do about it!

    In recent years the world has seen a surge of populist movements that deny or distort scientific facts. Europe is not immune to these developments as can be seen in electoral results from all corners of the continent, West and East, North and South. The session will discuss the reasons for these developments and discuss…

  • So you wanna communicate science?

    So you wanna communicate science?

    What needs to be narrated, if an oldie of this profession teaches decades younger newcomers in the trade of science journalism and science communication in general? A report of a three-day mission to a place, which was looked down upon as the boonies, but turns out an emerging center of excellence on the global academic map.…

  • How to Make Neurons ROCK — Toolbox with 20 methods

    How to Make Neurons ROCK — Toolbox with 20 methods

    Put your powerpoint presentations into the bin. How to get into the flow with your audience: from fish bowls, over line-ups to scientific standup comedies. An EUSJA session at PCST 2016 Istanbul packed a toolbox. A contribution to World Press Freedom Day on May 3.   EUSJA president emeritus Satu Lipponen, Finish health journalist, introduced the…

  • New Unity Found in a Rough Environment

    New Unity Found in a Rough Environment

    2nd European Conference of Science Journalists Budapest 2015: a 1st prelimary synopsis and evaluation. The 2nd European Conference for Science Journalists ECSJ, held on the 3rd of November 2015 in the Hungarian Academy of Science, was a powerful showing of a revitalized and reunited European science journalism. Here come highlights of five panels*, at the end…