Insights on Science Journalism

ISBN-13: 9781032341286 / Miękka / 2024 / 240 str.

Opis

Bringing together experts from a range of disciplines, this collection critically examines the features characterising science journalism, paying special attention to the points of tension that science journalists navigate in their work today.

Spis treści

List of Contributors

 

Introduction: Beating the bounds of science journalism

Felicity Mellor

 

Part 1: Establishing a Beat

1.  “Making democracy safe”: The development of US science journalism in the 1920s

Susan E. Swanberg and Felicity Mellor

2.  The expanding role of science journalism: BBC radio in post-war Britain

Jared Robert Keller

3.  Constructing identity, protecting independence: Science journalists’ associations

Jane Gregory

 

Part 2: Journalist-Source Relations

4.  Copy and paste: Churnalism in science journalism

Lars Guenther, Justin T. Schröder and Anna Tratter

5.  Science Media Centres: Walking a line between science, PR and journalism

Irene Broer

6.  The over-reliance on foreign science news in developing countries: Causes, consequences and solutions

An Nguyen and Minh Tran

7. “The death of experts”: Sourcing science journalism in a state-controlled media environment

Alexandra Borissova Saleh

 

Part 3: The Journalistic Voice

8.  Partial to being impartial? Debates about balance in science journalism

Felicity Mellor

9.  Making science trend: the style of popular science magazines

Katarzyna Molek-Kozakowska

10. Ethical compromise in narrative science journalism: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

Lauren Kilian

 

Conclusion: A conversation with the future

Felicity Mellor

 

Index

 

O autorze

Felicity Mellor is Director of Science Communication Unit at Imperial College London, UK, where she oversees the Unit’s long-running masters programmes in science communication. Her research focuses on science journalism and the ideological dimensions of media discourse about science. Her publications include two co-edited books: The Silences of Science and Science and its Publics.