EUSJA is committed to raise the professional standards. At the 8th World Conference of Science Journalists in Helsinki, it ran a training workshop for some 30 colleagues from around the world.
It addressed three major challenges of the job: investigation, statistics, storytelling.
The lecturers Hans van Maanen, Angela Posada-Swafford and Fabio Turone are all seasoned science journalists. Here you find their curricula & summaries, pix & interviews, in one word: the ESSENTIALS.
They may serve as a guide and thanks to WCSJ 2013 for having enabled this!
Wolfgang C. Goede, Session Organizer
PS: Please observe latest developments on Investigation, Data Journalism & Big Data http://sz.de/1.1804584;
https://www.eusja.org/train-investigative-skills-lee-hunters-story-based-inquiry-for-download/
A few impressions from the presenters and some participants
(7 short videos, you can skip from one to another
– Apologies for the bad quality of the audio)
Wolfgang C. Goede holds a master’s degree in political and communication science (LMU Munich: 1984) and a specialization in science journalism. He has served as an editor for Germany’s leading popular science magazine P.M. for 28 years. The resident of Munich is a board member of the German Association of Science Writers TELI and co-initiator of its Science Debate (wissenschaftsdebatte.de), co-founder of the World Federation of Science Journalists WFSJ and a member of the International Science Writers Association ISWA. Since 2012 Wolfgang has been the Honorary Secretary of the European Science Journalists EUSJA. He served as a member of the British Council’s Science Think Tank and has been the speaker and co-organizer of numerous journalistic workshops (ESOF, PCST, WCSJ). His engagement revolves around the state of the art of science journalism, its ethics and history, democratic claims and reality.