{"id":36484,"date":"2011-06-26T15:44:51","date_gmt":"2011-06-26T15:44:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/am-i-a-science-journalist-the-intersection\/"},"modified":"2011-06-26T15:44:51","modified_gmt":"2011-06-26T15:44:51","slug":"am-i-a-science-journalist-the-intersection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/am-i-a-science-journalist-the-intersection.php","title":{"rendered":"Am I a Science Journalist? | The Intersection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wcsj2011.org\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/09fd8_doha2_m.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"180\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-19020\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a>It&rsquo;s quite the question these days, for all of us. And it&rsquo;s the subject of a <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wcsj2011.org\/program#Tuesday\">panel I have organized<\/a> for the <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wcsj2011.org\/\">World Conference of Science Journalists<\/a> in Doha, which begins in just a few days now:<\/p><blockquote><p><strong>Am I a Science Journalist?<\/strong><\/p><p>In the evolving world of science communication, how do we define a science journalist? This panel will discuss whether the venerable word &ldquo;journalist&rdquo; can or should be applied to some, all, or none of the new generation of science bloggers and educators who are remaking the field.<\/p><p>Producer\/moderator<\/p><p>Chris Mooney, Discover; Point of Inquiry (USA)<\/p><p>Panelists<\/p><p>Ed Yong, Not Exactly Rocket Science (UK)<br>Moheb Costandi, Neurophilosophy (UK)<br>Homayoun Kheyri, freelance; BBC World Service (Australia\/Iran)<br>Cristine Russell, Council for the Advancement of Science Writing; Harvard Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs (USA)<\/p><\/blockquote><p>The panelists have to figure out the &ldquo;answer&rdquo; to the question more than I do, but it is certainly a conundrum, when almost nobody has a staff job at a publication any longer. Do all science bloggers count as science journalists? The thought gives me pause&ndash;I don&rsquo;t think all of them practice the norms of journalism, though some clearly do. <\/p><p>I know and practice the norms, meanwhile, but many things that I do professionally&ndash;like science communication work and training&ndash;clearly aren&rsquo;t journalism. Everybody is piecing it together in different ways. Maybe the problem is that the concept of &ldquo;journalism&rdquo; partly bears the stamp of an era that&rsquo;s behind us. <\/p><p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/54ItntuQ6JQCVP8s9EQQVQb1eiM\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/09fd8_di\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><br><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/54ItntuQ6JQCVP8s9EQQVQb1eiM\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/09fd8_di\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><\/p><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/09fd8_NnXOvSvbMBI\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/e9c39_KdemD758ZC0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&rsquo;s quite the question these days, for all of us. And it&rsquo;s the subject of a panel I have organized for the World Conference of Science Journalists in Doha, which begins in just a few days now:Am I a Science &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/am-i-a-science-journalist-the-intersection.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36484"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36484\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}