On Friday 1 October, as part of initiatives related to International Film Festival in Ferrara, one speaks of science and journalism. The site is located Youcapital press event in which I participate, too.
The abstract I sent to the organizers is the following:
The age in which science journalist enjoyed preferential treatment within the editorial is over. Shrink its space in newspapers, magazines, radio and TV and his narrative authority is disputed by the growing role of public communication that populate the digital ecosystem. Science journalism on the one hand, suffers the consequences of a significant historical reconfiguration is marking the transition from traditional media to online communications and collaboration. Second, those related to the changing relationship between science and society. Yet there is an increasing need for information on topics of science, technology, medicine.
And there is a need for new professionals who know how to untangle the interaction between new media and traditional media. Science journalism can become one of the most vital sectors of journalism in the coming years, as long as bait by the limits of the genre, opens up new stories and accept the logic of networked information.
I think that I will follow the following lineup:
1. Science journalism is in crisis? And his difficulties are due to the network?
2. Rules and conventions of traditional scientific journalism
3. Difficulty of science journalism in new and old media
4. Innovative initiatives
5. Science journalism in the coming years between the "new journalism" and the evolution of relations between science and society.
Step 1.
For some 'time the crisis of science journalism has become central in discussions between the experts. The past year has been a central topic of the Sixth World Conference of Science Journalists held in July in London. For some, the crisis is seen as an opportunity to rethink the forms, methods and practices of journalism in general. For others it is the end of a gender specialist who has enjoyed some luck in the world of information and that is inexorably moving towards the end.
the World Conference of Science Journalists is much debate of trend in the recruitment and use of specialists information on scientific, medical and technology. The widespread perception, especially in the U.S., is that there is a dramatic reduction in jobs for science journalists in the editorial offices of newspapers, magazines, radio and television. It must be stressed that these perceptions need empirical evidence. In any case, is a type of online discussion with the discussions on a more general crisis in the journalistic profession and, in particular of some of his classics, such as the daily press.
It is no secret that this industry is undergoing unprecedented hemorrhaging jobs.
The business model for print journalism is collapsing a combination of factors: decrease the spread of copies and readers, recession, decline in advertising. This trend is particularly significant for journalists. Science is regarded as a subject specialist, niche. Economic pressures are forcing media organizations to reduce their commitment in dealing with science and cutting jobs on the ground to refocus its priorities around non-specialist subjects.
E 'an approach that considers the scientific information is a luxury good in times of crisis we can not afford. It 'not just short-sighted because it ignores the role that science journalism can and should play in the restructuring of the future of journalism, but also from a short-range point of view is more pragmatic: the stories on climate change, stem cell research, evolution, bio-terrorism, are attractive to readers and selling.
In discussions on the crisis in science journalism, the culprit is often found in Internet and new technologies.
I think the network has caused an employment crisis for traditional science journalists and revealed the limits of the forms and conventions of traditional scientific journalism. They are professionals who have historically defined their working practices particularly in the print world.
one part, this crisis should not be confused with a general crisis of science communication, which is otherwise at a vital and highly developed. There is no comparison, even the recent past, the way in which, through the network, the scientific world interacts with an increasing number of public reasons, among others, which are more detailed than that traditionally allocated to scientific journalism. It 'a very creative and stimulating for scientific journalism. More generally, we are experimenting with new and emerging methods of production and validation of information. We are developing new ways in which journalism, including science journalism, builds his credibility and unpublished reports through negotiations with the sources producing the events and the public consumers of news. In the case of science journalism in these negotiations different than before, a crucial and controversial play the scientists themselves.
other hand, the employment crisis of the figure of a science journalist in the editorial offices of mass media should not be underestimated. Because if it is true that the decline in full-time jobs for science journalists in newsrooms is associated with growth in other areas of scientific communication, new players can not play took over some of the central functions of the journalist.
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