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The annual Social Journalism Study is charting the changes in the use of social media among journalists and media professionnals.

"Bhattacharya’s editorial is a defense of a journalistic status quo that I believe does a disservice to both scientists and the public."

This is tedious. We’ve been doing this for years now, with no progress. Two sides, shouting at each other, shouting past each other, resorting to caricatures, and making no/little attempt at mutual understanding. Let’s do better.

The My Science Programme is a European project supporting young journalits.

How a scientific finding gets exaggerated and distorted as it trickles down through "The Internets" and the media ?

A funny summary of the state of science reporting.

Just five years ago, there were only a handful of science blogs in English, now there are thousands. According to Adam Bly from Science Blogs, around 33% of scientists are now using blogs for writing, reading or as a lab notebook.

Right now, what I’m more interested in is the circumstances surrounding the study’s embargo. Let’s review what happened.

In the first of a series of five articles Clive Hamilton tracks the progress of climate denialism in Australia.

Scientists don't respect them, we are told, and the public doesn't trust them so how do we fix it so that journalists can again be the 'trusted guides' they used to be ?