Tag: Barbie Drillsma

  • EUSJA BOARD MID-TERM REPORT: by President Barbie Drillsma // 08-2013

    EUSJA BOARD MID-TERM REPORT: by President Barbie Drillsma // 08-2013

    Dear delegates, I gave an undertaking when I took office that I would regularly update you on what the board has been doing on your behalf.  As it is seven months until our next GA I believe it useful to give you a brief mid-term report. Our immediate goals were to raise EUSJA’s profile and…

  • 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…

  • Atomium Culture’s official response to Jens Degett

    Atomium Culture’s official response to Jens Degett

    We received this reply to the recent post on Atomium Culture by the President of the Danish Association of Science Journalists Jens Degett “Atomium Culture and The Role of the Media in Responsible Research and Innovation” Brussels – 3 April 2013 OBJECT: Response to post by Jens Degett published on 24 March 2013 Dear Jens…

  • 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…