Thanks again, as ever. Will add to my list.
In the light of Maria’s comment, do you have any feedback on how the media
accept these guides? Are we both being too cynical?
I realise that writers in developing countries have different needs. So they
may have a different take.
I should have added to my earlier note that guides for the media are
probably of more value to non-specialist writers. This has always been one
of the really valuable things that they do at the Science Media Centre,
provide contacts for hacks who suddenly have a science story thrown at them.
Unlike ABSW members, for example, who have large notebooks of contacts, and
probably a science degree or two, non-specialists would not know a gene from
their elbow.
MK
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Sent: 19 March 2009 17:57
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Subject: Re: [PSCI-COM] Science Guides For The Media (was RE: [PSCI-COM]
Advice to scientists ....
Hello all,
SciDev.Net publishes practical guides on communications issues for
scientists (e.g. How do I become media savvy
http://www.scidev.net/en/practical-guides/how-do-i-become-media-savvy-.html)
and diverse aspects of science journalism. Hopefully people will find
them useful as a resource.
The whole list is here: http://www.scidev.net/en/practical-guides/
This year we're concentrating on topic-based guides for journalists, the
first of which (climate change) was published this week
(http://www.scidev.net/en/practical-guides/climate-change-how-to-report-the-
story-of-the-cent.html)
As we report on science and development they are aimed at developing country
science journalists but they're appropriate for anyone.
I'd appreciate feedback if anyone has any!
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Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2009 14:20:44 +0000
From: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: [PSCI-COM] Science Guides For The Media (was RE: [PSCI-COM]
Advice to scientists ....
To: [log in to unmask]
How right you are.
Guides for the media are usually, to use yoofspeak, “pants”.
These things can also very quickly get out of date. Which is probably why a
web site is a better bet. (I should have asked for that in my first
message.)
But before we dismiss the idea completely, older readers may remember that a
while back the Royal Society and the Association of British Science Writers
colluded in a series of media briefings. These gave hacks the chance to
listen to some real experts about a “hot topic”. Someone then wrote the
event up as a “media guide” for the benefit of folks who could not make the
event.
I suspect that the Science Media Centre still does such things, but the
benefit of the RS/ABSW events is that they were open to all members of the
media, rather than a select bunch of “Fleet Street” superstars.
So something handed down from on high might not work, as you say, but guides
based on what journalists really want to know might have a better chance.
M
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Sent: 18 March 2009 08:24
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Subject: Re: [PSCI-COM] Science Guides For The Media (was RE: [PSCI-COM]
Advice to scientists ....
Do we have any evidence that science guides for the media are effective? The
publications I've worked for (Nature, New Scientist, Guardian) have gone out
of their way to get things right, but at the end of the day we have to
publish items people want to read. Mistakes happen but condescending guides
from bodies such as the Royal Society rile rather than help.
I think a good glossary/style guide in the format of the Guardian's style
guide would be more useful with words like biodiversity explained (I liked
that bit in the IIED briefing), and commonly misused words pointed out.
Maria
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From: Michael Kenward <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask]
Sent: Tuesday, 17 March, 2009 10:55:30
Subject: [PSCI-COM] Science Guides For The Media (was RE: [PSCI-COM] Advice
to scientists ....
I have now looked at this and see that it is not related to the subject of
this discussion at all, a media guides for scientists. It is the other way
round, a science guide for the media.
Drat. That means that I need to think about a page of stuff along the same
lines.
So, if you know of any "science guides for the media" let me know.
This one can get the ball rolling. Thanks.
Please, just stuff intended for the media. General science things are
plentiful, but unless they are aimed at the hacks they will ignore them. In
any case, they may well start from the wrong position.
____________________________
Michael Kenward
ABSW e-minder
http://www.absw.org.uk
http://absw.blogspot.com/
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Hi Andy
I wrote a 4-page paper on biodiversity and the media, which is free for
download from here: http://www.iied.org/pubs/display.php?o=17037IIED
Cheers
Mike
Mike Shanahan
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Sent: 16 March 2009 09:44
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Subject: Re: [PSCI-COM] Advice to scientists who want to work with the
media
Michael,
NERC have produced a 'Science and the Media' guide, available to
download
from here:
http://www.nerc.ac.uk/publications/guidance/sciencemedia.asp
I am trying to build a up a list of online resources online at
http://tinyurl.com/biocrc. The focus for this online resource centre
(part of an
EU-funded project) is biodiversity and 'nature'-related science, but I
am linking
to general science guidance as well. If it's OK with you I'd like to
include a link
to the online resources you are building up.
If you are any other readers can suggest relevant material I can
include, that
would be great.
Thanks
Andy
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