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Ediorial:
Science journalists - a dying breed?
A friend of mine is an investigative journalist for a major American newspaper. He's a fine writer, winning some of the highest awards for his work, and one of those great journalists many of us aspire to be. In the few films where the journalist is the hero for uncovering some great injustice, he'd be that journalist. But his Facebook photo is of a dodo....
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Features:
Rude Health
Did a recent report on the state of science journalism miss the point? Paul Rodgers is a journalist for a national newspaper but is also completing a science journalism course, making him ideally placed to examine the state of science journalism.
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Eureka: an inspired decision?
Print journalism is in a state of flux, beset by declining circulation and digital innovation. Despite this wider uncertainty, eight months ago The Times launched Eureka - a science magazine aimed squarely at the intelligent layman. So how much of a risk has it been? Antonia Senior, Editor of Eureka, answers.
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So you want your first science journalist job?
Intro..Every year dozens of students complete science communication courses – but are there enough science journalism and writing jobs to go round? We asked recent graduate Mico Tatalovic for his experiences in trying to make money from science journalism.
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How to: Audioboo
Audioboo is a social networking service that allows you to upload and share audio files. Think of it an audio version of Twitter but without being limited to 140 characters (unless you speak very, very slowly).
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News:
Times Paywall for online content
Intro...The Times Online, the web counterpart of the News Corp.-owned print newspaper, is about to begin charging users for access to its content. Hannah Devlin, The Times' science journalist, says the paywall will encourage a smaller, more strategic readership.
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ABSW member to mentor journalists in Africa and the Middle East
Nature’s Online News Editor and ABSW member Ananyo Bhattacharya has been selected to serve as a mentor for the World Federation of Science Journalists outreach programme Science Journalism Cooperation Program.
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UK Science Journalism conference takes shape
Plans for the first ever UK Conference of Science Journalists (UKCSJ) are now taking shape with an outline programme agreed last month. Plenary sessions will include the provocatively titled 'ClimateGate: Were Journalists asleep at the Wheel?' Exploring the story of the leaked University of East Anglia e-mails, the relationship between scientists and science journalists, and between journalists and their news desk/editors.
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Nanotech up close
Nanotechnology is an interdisciplinary field, at the interface between biology, chemistry and physics. As such, researchers at the LCN - a collaboration between University College London and Imperial College London - have set themselves the challenging goal of redefining scientific fields to have an impact on the world. And ABSW members got to see their efforts first hand on a recent field visit
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Columns:
ABSW-L Buzz Feb-May 2010
Fabrication, misquotation, Brits vs. Yanks, the April Fool's Balrog and imaginative pedants. All in a few months' chat on ABSW-L...
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Fabian's World
What Fabian thinks about a set of guidelines for anyone making sci-fi films or programmes, the most important one being: "only one major transgression of physics permitted."
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Hall of Shame:
Making you proud to call yourself a science writer
No prizes for guessing which newspaper this story comes from: "Simply turning on a light at night for a few seconds to go to the toilet can cause changes that might lead to cancer."
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Events:
Out and About
Instead of shivering in a pub garden, why not come along to one of these scintillating events?
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