Tag: science journalism
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How to prepare for the next pandemic
The Science and Politics of Covid-19 (Springer, 2021) is one of the first popular science books published on the ongoing pandemic. Combining scientific rigour and journalistic style, the book retraces the history and the management of the pandemic in several countries. It draws upon lessons learned during the crisis, discusses the emergence of “science politics,”…
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Pain, just a symptom or a disease on its right?
By Merce Piqueras When I told a friend of mine, who is a nurse, that I was to attend a meeting on pain, she asked me: “Is it an anaesthesiology meeting?” My friend, like other professionals of health, assumes that pain is the province of anaesthesiologists, the specialists whose main task is to prevent pain…
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AI is changing how newsrooms work: here’s what that will mean for science journalists
By Mico Tatalovic, …
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ABSW Awards 2018
By Mico Tatalovic, Chairman of the ABSW “Science writing awards for work published or broadcast in the UK or Irish based media in 2017 open for entry on the 1st of January 2018. https://www.absw.org.uk/absw-awards/awards.html The Awards are for works of science, technology, engineering or mathematics (STEM) journalism/writing, in print, broadcast or online, published within the UK…
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Who’s afraid of science journalists? Portugal’s scientists step into journalists’ shoes
By Vera Novais, Observador The “Who’s afraid of journalists?” session at SciComPT2017 meeting, in Portugal, explored the tricky relationship between journalists, scientists and press officers by having them role play each other’s jobs What would happen if you put a scientist into a newsroom, and a journalist into a research lab? They might just have…