EUSJA

Month: October 2012

  • Health journalists: go to Gastein – by Senne Starckx

    From Wesndesday 3rd October until Saturday 6th Ocotber; fifteen EUSJA journalists attended the European Health Forum Gastein 2012. Fifteen EUSJA-journalists took the opportunity this year to swap their busy working habitat for the peaceful and quiet Gastein valley, a beautiful setting amidst the majestic Austrian Alps. It’s the kind of place that invites you to…

  • Bloggers, the better journalists?

    There is a future for professional journalists. In particular those who have their specialities, like science journalists. There is no reason to complain about the competition of bloggers and the social media networks, to sing the swan-song on journalism. Blogs, Facebook or Twitter are not drivers of news. Instead they are a still small pathways…

  • EUSJA Statement on embargoes and manipulation

    EUSJA Statement on embargoes and manipulation

    The European Union of Science Journalists’ Associations (www.eusja.org) condemns the outrageous abuse of the embargo system that was perpetrated a few days ago to manipulate the press in order to get a favourable, acritical coverage of a study on the controversial and important issue of food safety in relationship to genetically modified organisms. The incident…