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Asked by danm to Arttu, Ceri, James_M, Monica, Philip on 16 Jun 2011.
Question: Have you had any experience with science journalism?
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Arttu Rajantie answered on 16 Jun 2011:
Not much. I know some science journalists, and I think they are generally doing a good job. It is important that the public knows about science. The media play a key role in that and we scientists should help them. Of course, there are always some sensationalist stories which may be complete rubbish but they are usually not written by real science journalists.
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danm commented on :
Do science journalists generally study science or journalism?
Arttu commented on :
I think they usually have science degrees. At Imperial we have a one-year MSc course in Science Communication which you can do after a science undergraduate degree to learn proper journalism skills.
Sarah commented on :
Is that the course @modsteve is doing? He said he was doing a science communication course!