Health journalists face translation challenge, researchers find
Majority of Health Journalists Lack Specialized Training, Nearly Half Not Familiar with Health Literacy
Source: University of Missouri-Columbia
EurekAlert press release
Journalism groups warn newsrooms against unhealthy alliances with hospitals
Two important journalism organizations are urging local broadcast stations and newspapers to avoid arrangements with hospitals that improperly influence health coverage, saying unethical partnerships interfere with independent news coverage of health care.
Association of Health Care Journalists, August 2008
Unhealthy Alliances Between Hospitals and TV Stations
Columbia Journalism Review. August 2008
The Changing Newsroom: What is Being Gained and What is Being Lost in America's Daily Newspapers?
Project for Excellence in Journalism, July 2008
How Do US Journalists Cover Treatments, Tests, Products and Procedures? An Evaluation of 500 Stories
Gary Schwitzer - PLoS Medicine, May 2008
Internet en España
Fundación BBVA, May 2008
Nuclearism and the Legacy of U.S. Media Coverage of Hiroshima
Uday Mohan - Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, April, 2007
Front pages in The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal
The Project for Excellence in Journalism has released a study examining the front pages of The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal from December 13th through March 13th 2008. The report found that both newspapers essentially buried environmental stories, as environmental news for both papers made up only 1 percent of the total front page. April 2008
Science friction
The Daily Telegraph looks set to lose its science correspondent amid growing fears about standards of science reporting in the press.
Iain Hollingshead - THE GUARDIAN, April 2008
Science journalism vs. consumerism
Tala Aman, April 2008
Out of print: The death and life of the american newspaper
Eric Alterman - The New Yorker, March 2008
Journalists forced to sensationalize science to attract readers
Celebrity ‘news’ vs. science writing
Alan Boyle, science editor for MSNBC.com, satirizes the online science journalists tabloid angles on their story in efforts to attract readers in the annual Alfred and Julia Hill Lecture in the University of Tennessee entitled "Britney Spears vs. Chimps with Spears: Talking about Science in a Tabloid Culture." The Hill lecture series was established in 1989 by Tom Hill, former publisher of “The Oak Ridger”, and his sister Mary Frances Hill Holton. The Hills wanted to honor their parents, Alfred and Julia Hill, who founded “The Oak Ridger in 1949”. March 2008
News withtout reporter
Steve Boriss - Washington University in St. Louis, March 2008
The State of the News Media 2008
The State of the News Media 2008 is the fifth edition of an annual report on the health and status of American journalism. The study is the work of the Project for Excellence in Journalism, a non political, non partisan research institute that is part of the Pew Research Center in Washington
Getting the public to pay attention to good science
John Timmer, February, 2008
The cold truth about climate change
Joseph J. Romm-Salon.com, February 2008
Science Journalism: past, present and futuristic
Curtis Brainard - Columbia Journalism Review, February 2008
Science in the brave new media world
John Timmer, February 2008
Baromètre de confiance des Français dans les médias
TNS Sofres-La Croix , January 2008
Ciencia y Tecnología (Divulgación Científica) en los medios audiovisuales
Consejo Audiovisual de Andalucía, December 2007
Biofuels: The research challenge
SciDev Dossier, December 2007
Breaking News, Not Transcribing It
Slate, November 2007
Scientists must learn to talk to the media
Miichael Skapinker-FINANCIAL TIMES, October 2007
The role of science journalists in the developing world
Chris Mooney-Seed Magazine, July 2007
Science reporting's dark secret
A cosy embargo system is bad news for science coverage - and correspondents too
David Whitehouse - THE INDEPENDENT, July 2007
Scarborough Newspaper Audience Ratings Report 2007
Scarborough research, 2007
Premier Observatoire de la convergence Media: L'internaute passe les contenus médias au mixeur (French)
IPSOS, May 2007
Los medicamentos en los medios de comunicación (Spanish)
G. Casino, 2007
Can science blogs save science journalism?
Online Journalism Review, 2007
Readers vs. breeders
D. Boerseama, October 2007
A categorical imperative for science journalists
W.C. Goede, October 2007
Thirteen tips fro great media interviews
P. Thomas, October 2007
Why communicate science? - a Kiwi view
P. Callaghan, September 2007
Bulímia comunicativa o informació crítica? (paper in Catalan)
V. de Semir. Annals de Medicina, 2007
Creative Destruction: An Exploratory Look at News on the Internet
Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy - Harvard University, August 2007
Science and the Media Committee for Skeptical Inquiry
M. Nisbet, web column
Two Decades of American News Preferences
Pew Research Center, August 2007
Less interest in science
Elhuyar Fundazioa (Basque R&D&I website), July 2007
Press releases and the framing of science journalism
J. Timmer, June 2007
Effective media communication of disasters: Pressing problems and recommendations
W. Lowery et al., June 2007
The decline of news
N. Henry (San Francisco Chronicle), May 2007
5th World Conference on Science Journalists
V. Rarabici, April 2007
Is Mass Media Communication sufficient? A systematic review of anti-smoking campaigns
H.B. Weishaar, March 2007
What journalists can do in the fight against TB
SciDevNet, March 2007
La confiance des Français dans les médias
TNS Sofres - La Croix, February 2007
Scienza e media, l'opinione del New York Times (Italian)
Workshop held by Fondazione Carlo Erba (Milan), February 2007
Le moral et le jugement des journalistes sur leur métier et leur profession
Baromètre CSA - Les Assises du Journalisme, February 2007
The State of the news media 2007
Project for Excellence in Journalism, 2007
La presse au défi du numérique (rapport au ministre de la culture et de la communication)
Annexe I: Quelques statistiques sur la presse et le numerique en France et dans le monde
Annexe II: L'utilisation d'internet par la presse française
M. Tessier, February 2007
How journalism can hide the truth about science
¿Cómo el periodismo oculta la verdad sobre la ciencia?
Elmien Wolvaardt-SciDevNet, January 2007
Reporting on science. Practical guidance
SciDevNet, January 2007
Science in the Public Eye
Jurgen Klaube - Max Planck Research, 2006
Reporting controversies in science
T. Radford, December 2006
Explaining controversial issues to the media and the public
B. Ward, December 2006.
Guidelines for scientists on communicating with the media
SIRC - ACSoR, November 2006.
The Internet as a resource for news and information about Science
Pew Internet & American Life Project, November 2006.
The future of the Internet II
PEW Internet & American Life Project, September 2006.
La salud en el supermercado de la información (Spanish)
Vladimir de Semir & Gemma Revuelta - Humanitas, June 2006.
La ciencia y la tecnología en los diarios argentinos (Spanish)
Secretaría de Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación Productiva. May 2006.
El Dr. Hwang y el clon que nunca existió (Spanish)
V. de Semir and G. Revuelta, April 2006.
Análisis de los contenidos de los informativos de las cadenas de TV españolas (Spanish)
Consumer, April 2006.
Salud y medios de comunicación en España (Spanish)
G. Revuelta, March 2006.
The trouble with medical journals
R. Smith, March 2006.
What we can do about Science Journals
J. Baez, January 2006.
Science and society (3). Science and society: the role of the media
Ciencia y sociedad (3). Ciencia y sociedad: el papel de los medios de comunicación
COSCE (Conferación de Sociedades Científicas de España), January 2006.
Science and society (4). Science on TV, in publications, and on the internet
Ciencia y sociedad (4). La ciencia en la TV, la actividad editorial e internet
COSCE (Conferación de Sociedades Científicas de España), January 2006.
Science in the web age: joint efforts
D. Butler, December 2005.
Science dialogues
RTD info (special issue), November 2005
Information About Science And Technology
Ipsos MORI, November 2005
Presència i tractament del contingut sobre salut en la programació de la ràdio generalista (Catalan)
M. Gutiérrez and A. Huertas, November 2005.
Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Control Creativity
L. Lessig, Reviewed by B. Trench, Summer 2005.
Undoing Darwin
C. Mooney and M.C. Nisbet, October 2005.
Science in radio broadcasting (final report)
SCRIRAB, March 2005.
The future of the Internet (2005)
PEW Internet & American Life Project, January 2005.
Una guía electrónica de comunicación de la ciencia
SciDevNet, January 2005
The Daily Planet: Why the Media Stumble Over the Environment
A.C. Revkin, 2005
Blinded by Science. How "balanced" coverage lets the scientific fringe hijack reality
C. Mooney, December 2004
La ciencia en el supermercado de la información
Vladimir de Semir, 2004
A representação da ciência no jornal televisivo brasileiro: Ações sociais da divulgação científica (paper in Portuguese)
J. Minelli, May 2004.
Do the print media "hype" genetic research? A comparison of newspaper stories and peer-reviewed research papers
T.M. Bubela and T.A. Caulfield, April 2004.
Les émissions scientifiques
Conseil Supérior de l'Audiovisuel (France). February, 2004.
The science update in Brazilian television news: Social actions of a cultural product
J. Minelli, 2004.
Los suplementos especializados como guetos de noticias en la prensa generalista: el caso de los científicos y sanitarios
Carlos Elías-ÁMBITOS, 2003
La investigación universitaria en periodismo científico
Carolina Moreno-ÁMBITOS, 2003
What is newsworthy? Longitudinal study on the reporting of medical research in two British newspapers
C. Barlett et al., July 2002
Press Releases Translating Research into News
S. Woloshin and L.M. Schwartz, June 2002
Press releases on trial
A. Vass and C. McKenna, June 2002
Science & Media: the promotion of RTD culture and public understanding of Science
V. de Semir, May 2002
La divulgación científica en la programación de las televisiones generalistas
Juan Francisco Gutiérrez Lozano-Comunicar, 2002
The socio-epistemic constitution of science and technology in the Greek press: an analysis of its presentation
C. Dimopoulos and V. Koulaidis, 2002
Science and technology education for citizenship: the potential role of the press
K. Dimopoulos and V. Koulaidis, 2002
Guidelines on science and health communication
SIRC, November 2001.
Sensationalism in the media: when scientists and journalists may be complicit collaborators
D.F. Ransohoff and R.M. Ransohoff, August 2001
Science et télévision; état des lieux
Conseil Supérieur de l'Audiovisuel, April 2001
Scientific journalism: problems and perspectives
V. de Semir, 2000
Mass communication and public understanding of environmental problems: the case of global warming
K.R. Stamm et al., 2000
Declaration of the Second World Conference of Science Journalists
Wellcome Trust & Office of Science and Communication, July 1999
Press Releases of Science Journal Articles and Subsequent Newspaper Stories on the Same Topic
V. de Semir et al., July 1998
Scientific and Medical News on the Internet
W. Loughner, Fall 1997
From news wire to news weekly: 75 years of Science Service
Anna Maria Gillis, March, 1997
What is newsworthy?
V. de Semir, April 1996
Reporting research in medical journals and newspapers
V. Entwistle, April 1995
Rapport du COMETS sur la communication scientifique
COMETS, January 1995
A new voice for science:Science Service 1921-1929
David J. Rhees, Chapel Hill - 1979
(David Rhees is Executive Director of the Bakken Library and Museum in Minneapolis.
His Ph.D. dissertation at the University of Pennsylvania (1987) continued his work on Edwin E. Slosson and the popularization of science: "The Chemist's Crusade: The Rise of a Modern Industrial Science, 1907-1922."
His current research focuses on the history of the medical device industry. rhees@thebakken.org )