Misinformation and Omission in Science Journalism

Careers in Virology: Science Writing and Journalism.

This article condenses some highlights from a presentation that I have now given at several universities about the bench-to-newsroom career path. For readers who simply want a short explanation of how to parlay their hard-earned critical-thinking skills from graduate school into a lucrative job in a growing industry, go to law school.

Information Science: Science about Information, Misinformation and Disinformation

Participants in interactions (particularly in interactive network media (WWW) aim to change their intentions, goals, decisions and actions – as well as those of other participants in communication. Integrity of information is therefore disturbed; changes are manifested as technical, semantic and social errors and lead to the creation of information, misinformation and disinformation. These beco...

AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Award winners named.

362 27 JANUARY 2017 • VOL 355 ISSUE 6323 sciencemag.org SCIENCE Consequential stories on important issues in medical research are among the winners of the 2016 AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Awards, including a Swedish documentary that raised disturbing questions about the research conduct of a surgeon at the famed Karolinska Institute, a series in a small weekly newspaper that challenged claims...

Journalism in the Borderland between Science and Politics

This paper meant to provoke discussion, and not to purport any strong knowledge claims argues that journalistic practice in the borderland between science and politics tends to mirror and reinforce outdated conventions about science and politics. Journalistic transportation of risk-facts is seen as one instance of this. Furthermore, it is argued that to come anywhere near to an ideal of public ...

How the Internet changed science journalism