DEBATE: Do science journalists now rely too much on press releases to do their jobs?
FOR: Aisling Irwin, News Editor, SciDev.Net
It's not that the press releases are poor quality. In fact it’s quite the opposite: many of them are fine examples of their type. There they are every morning in the news inbox or at the top of an RSS feed: pages of clickables in the EurekAlert! email; stories from AlphaGalileo...
AGAINST: Bob Ward, Policy and Communications Director, Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, London School of Economics and Political Science
No! Press releases remain an indispensable source of information for journalists, but there is no evidence that they rely to heavily on them, despite the increasing pressures on them...
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EDITORIAL: Do let’s argue...the future of The Science Reporter
The first issue of The Science Reporter (TSR) that I remember seeing, back in the mid ‘90s, contained a slanging match between Bill O’Neill, then of The Guardian, and Roger Highfield, then of The Daily Telegraph, about broken embargoes during that year’s BA...
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FEATURE: Getting the scoop on embargos
Blow-by-blow account of how a reporter writing for The Sun was accused of breaking a Science embargo, and what the ABSW response has been so far...
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FEATURE: WCSJ 2009
Someone once said that in journalism you are only as good as your last article. Sit back on your laurels, in the face of financial constraints and fierce competition for column inches or air time, and you may find you no longer have a seat. Ignore the...
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NEWS: ABSW Best Newcomer Award 2009
Members are invited to nominate themselves, or colleagues, for a Best Newcomer prize to be awarded later this year at the World Conference of Science Journalists...
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NEWS: Science journalism in crisis?
There was much discussion of the state of science journalism at this year's AAAS meeting...
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NEWS: Creators' Rights Alliance enters new phase
As writers face possible new copyright legislation and worsening economic conditions, a cross-platform body such as the Creators' Rights Alliance (CRA) can add more weight to their interests than any single-media representative body or union ever could...
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ABSW: Website is getting a facelift
New and exciting changes are afoot for our online presence...
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ABSW: Calm sea, prosperous voyage...
Chair, Ted Nield, reflects on a difficult few years before the mast...
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ABSW: Society events at the WCSJ
The committee is currently working on two events for the World Conference of Science Journalists (WCSJ) designed specifically for ABSW members (though technically speaking the entire WCSJ is an ABSW event!)...
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ABSW: Local groups for local people
New regional groups are springing up around the country, helping to drag the ABSW outside of London...
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COLUMN: Acker's World
The French call them pissanlit
In a continuing debate in the Freethinker about the balance between Prince Charles’ cupidity and stupidity, Professor Edzard Ernst of Exeter University takes the Prince to task for flogging...
Esplorado substitui sabla for benzino in the benzinmotoro
Of course readers of TSR will be able to see at a glance the important implications of my paper (or “esplorado” as we international scientists call “research”) into the use of sand instead...
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COLUMN: ABSW-L Buzz
What you've been missing if you haven't signed up for the list...
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COLUMN: Out and about
An incomplete and rather random guide to forthcoming events...
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OBITUARY: Sir John Maddox (1925-2009)
An appreciation and collection of obituaries by Henry Gee on Nature Network...
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Members' Books
New books from Christian Jarrett and Joannah Ginsburg, Frank Close, John Gribbin and Mary Gribbin, and Nicholas Russell.
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New Members
Dr Lloyd Anderson, Dr Yasemin Koc, Dr Claire McNulty and Catherine O'Donovan.
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Jobs
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