Wendy Sadler wrote:
>Does anyone know if there has been any research done in the percentage of
different sciences that are covered in the print media? (newspapers and
>non-specialist magazines)
About a year ago a similar question appeared on the EUSJA mailing list
(European Science Journalists Mailing list
http://www.esf.org/eusja/eusja-l.htm). Sabine Louet of the then Novartis'
Media Resource Service gave the following break down for calls from UK
journalists. They are averages calculated between 1985 , when the MRS was
launched, and December 1998.
Health and Medicine: 39.2 %
Psychology and Social Sciences: 13.6 %
Life sciences: 10.6 %
Environment: 4.2 %
Physical Sciences: 5.6 %
Industry: 3.1 %
Space and Military: 2.3 %
Earth sciences: 1.8 %
Hope this provides you with some useful indicators
Best
Karen John-Pierre
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