A Tactical Guide To Science Journalism: Lessons From The Front Lines

The veteran journalist Tim Radford, who headed up the science desk at the UK's Guardian newspaper for more than two decades, was once interviewed by a government committee charged with investigating the fragile relationship between science and society." In a lengthy report submitted to the House of Lords in February, 2000, the committee noted that the public's faith in both science and government had been shaken over the preceding years - in part by an outbreak of bovine spongiform encephalopathy, colloquially known as "mad cow disease." This and the swift rise of biotechnology, the burgeoning internet age, and other fast-moving manifestations of human ingenuity, it was determined, were creating an air of anxiety and mistrust"--

• | Author: Ashley Smart|Tom Zeller Jr.
• | Publisher: Oxford University Press
• | Publication Date: Jun 10, 2022
• | Number of Pages: 360 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 0197551505
• | ISBN-13: 9780197551509