Andy Revkin, former science editor at 'The New York Times' has an interesting blog posting on "the responsibility of scientists to jump into the communication breach that's being created as specialized journalism shrinks":
http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/08/02/filling-the-science-communication-gap/
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