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Giving Science a Life Outside the Lab
Locantore Editor’s note: This report is part of a continuing series of updates from Locantore during her Media Fellowship at the Richmond (Virginia) Times-Dispatch. In some ways, newspaper writing is very ephemeral. I’ve already begun
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Science Writing: Keep the Audience in Mind
It was a story with sex appeal: “Widely-used antidepressants may help slow the progression of Parkinson’s disease!” Lots of people use antidepressants, and lots of people are affected by Parkinson’s, including some very famous people.
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In the Newsroom When Disaster Strikes
Jill Kester Locantore is this year’s APS-AAAS Media Fellow. She began her year-long internship with the Richmond Times-Dispatch on September 10. In the following report, she describes what it was like to be in a
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Views From Our Media Fellow: Communicating About Science
Jill Kester was selected as the APS/AAAS 2001 Mass Media Fellow. Her internship is with the Richmond Times Dispatch in Richmond, VA. Below, Kester describes her background and offers her views on the importance of
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Science in Educational Media: Taking it to the (Sesame) Street
There is a tremendous range in the degree to which research plays a role in the production of educational media for children. Many producers rely on little or no research input, limited, perhaps, to occasional
