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I finally started digging into Nature's special issue on the future of science journalism. The most interesting passage thus far (and the one that also rings most true to me, as a former-would-be-scientist/current-aspiring-journalist/lifetime-reader-of-science):

"But there is a problem: the online world, both in its bloggier reaches and elsewhere, is polarized; people go to places they feel comfortable. Many of the people that Timmer originally hoped to reach when writing about intelligent design and the Dover trial probably go elsewhere for their news, he says, because 'it's easy for somebody to pick their news sources based on their politics, and get that version of scientific issues'. Dykstra worries that in a more fragmented media world, 'environmental news will be available to environmentalists and science news will be available to scientists. Few beyond that will pay attention.'

"Others worry about the less questioning approach that comes with a stress on communication rather than journalism. 'Science is like any other enterprise,' says Blum. 'It's human, it's flawed, it's filled with politics and ego. You need journalists, theoretically, to check those kinds of things,' she says. In the United States, at least, the newspaper, the traditional home of investigations and critical reporting, is on its way out, says Hotz. 'What we need is to invent new sources of independently certified fact.'"

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A blog post on the "death of journalism" with a science spin. I really like how he divides journalism up into different categories and defines them. I totally agree that there are different types of journalism, and we need different people to do them.

Have only gotten about half way through it but...can't wait to finish it. Zooming ahead, I can see that he only devotes a short amount of time to "Opinion, Entertainment, Storytelling, etc." which is my favorite kind.

Now wait a minute...isn't STORYTELLING the most important thing for a science journalists, since scientists tend to neglect the STORIES behind the science?

I'll at least wait until I finish reading to pass judgment...

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Ooooh, I like this as a blog structure (reading a classic for the first time and reacting to it, chapter by chapter). In this case, it's Darwin's "Origin of the Species" in preparation for Darwin Day on Feb. 12.

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The NYTimes takes a whack at the state of college radio. The main theme is that college radio is adapting to the 21st century with the use of online streaming. The subtext is that -- as perhaps was always the case -- most college radio deejays simply do it for themselves.

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Suggested by my dad, and for once I'm actually really glad he pointed me to a site. (Just kidding! Dad, your suggestions are always great.)

And to embarrass my dad even more, here's what he had to say:

He is arguably the "inventor" of blogging. He's a "techie" but one of the topics he likes to talk about is how the internet is "amateurizing" journalism and that that is probably a good thing.

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