Description
Sometimes the easiest way to write about your science is to get someone else to do it for you. Journalists work within the media every day and have numerous option for stories to report on from politics, sport, entertainment and more . How does science compete in this arena? What are the priorities of the journalists and editors making decisions about the newsworthiness of a particular story? How do you make your science attractive to the reporter and the public?
This session will feature a journalist from The Economist newspaper with experience in putting science in the spotlight along with members of the EGEE collaboration who have worked with the media to promote their science. They will discuss how science gets into the public arena through the media and how they see the process.
