Sign up for The Media Today, CJR’s daily newsletter. Last August, science journalists lost one of their most precious resources when the Knight Science Journalism ...
Science News for Students and the Science News in High Schools program, which connects students in over 4,300 high schools and their teachers with the magazine, are introducing the next generation to ...
Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. Around the block from the Miracle of Science café, in a corner of Cambridge surrounding the Massachusetts Institute of ...
We usually think of journalists as bringing us news about politics and world events. Analyzing a presidential election or an ongoing scandal helps inform us and holds powerful figures accountable on ...
Michael Shermer got his first clue that things were changing at Scientific American in late 2018. The author had been writing his “Skeptic” column for the magazine since 2001. His monthly essays, ...
I’m not a machine (as far as I’m aware) but one day AI bots will probably replace at least some aspects of my job as a science journalist. Still, could these computer systems ever really be capable of ...
I started my research career in what may have been the first and only age of science journalism. Newspapers were big and growing, and many had dedicated science sections; magazines like Scientific ...
When Science News was founded in 1921, journalism was still a men’s domain, with women relegated largely to writing for the society pages. But women in the United States had just gained the right to ...
“We need science journalists now more than ever, but with alarming frequency, legacy and digital-first publications alike are showing that they can’t provide these journalists with stability. So who ...
The Balkan Network of Science Journalists and the European Federation for Science Journalism are proud to present “A Tudományos Újságírás Alapjai” (The Basics of Science Journalism), a new guide in ...
Science journalism is plagued by several critical problems that jeopardize its credibility. If we want the public to be more science-minded, we have to correct these issues sooner rather than later.
In recent years, the economic hardships that have crippled newspapers and hurt other media outlets have taken a disproportionate toll on science journalism. Many news establishments, including CNN, ...