Month: November 2013
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Science Debates: Journalism or PR?
When proposing science debates as tools, opportunities and even tasks for science journalists, a colleagues came up and said scoffingly: »It’s still only PR.« He was not wrong considering the currently fashionable science debates. But that is the point: we need new formats, we need debates with a journalistic approach, we need to fill the…
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Which are the next walls to fall?
By Luca Tancredi Barone, ACCC freelance journalist (Spain, Catalan) This November 14 members of EUSJA were offered a grant to attend the Falling Walls Conference in Berlin – the international conference on future breakthroughs in science and society. EUSJA has been invited to this fascinated event not once, and the journalists always could get enough…
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Call for applications
Nature Travel Grant Scheme for Journalists ESOF2014 – Copenhagen, 21-26 June 2014 1. – Purpose Created by EuroScience, the biennial ESOF – EuroScience Open Forum – meeting is the largest pan-European general science meeting dedicated to scientific research and innovation. At ESOF meetings leading scientists, researchers, young researchers, journalists, business people, entrepreneurs and innovators, policy…
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Removing the veil of silence from chronic pain
By Sílvia Garcia Farreny, freelance science journalist, member of ACCC (Spain, Catalan) EUSJA has been invited to attend the 8-th biennial congress “Pain in Europe” in Florence (October 9-12, http://www1.kenes.com/efic/). 13 science journalists from Belgium, Germany, Hungary, Netherlands, Poland, Russia, Spain and Switzerland could take part in that very interesting multidisciplinary forum, meet top scientists…
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Investigative Data Harvest -– The rise of the new Woodwards & Bernsteins
These days is the worldwide roll-out of the movie how Hollywood views WikiLeaks” and the figure behind it Julian Assange. The title “The Fifth Estate”was in Germany translated into “Fifth Power” and reminds of the fact that traditionally the power system is divided and balanced between the Executive Branch, Legislature and Judiciary with a fourth…