The challenges for science journalism in the UK

Auteur(s) et Affiliation(s)

MURCOTT, T.H.L.

City Univ., London, Royaume-Uni

WILLIAMS, A.

Univ., Cardiff, Royaume-Uni

Description :
The world of journalism is changing rapidly as online media grow, squeezing resources and putting pressure on journalists to produce maximum output on minimum resources. The effect is to threaten to shift the role of science news production away from science journalists to public relations (PR) professionals, and to reduce the essential democratic role of the journalist holding the spenders of public money to account. Evidence for this is offered from recent research into the state of science journalism in the UK, and from a BBC-commissioned report into the impartiality of new science coverage in the UK by the state broadcaster.

Type de document :
Article de périodique

Source :
Progress in physical geography, issn : 0309-1333, 2013, vol. 37, n°. 2, p. 152-160, nombre de pages : 9, Références bibliographiques : 39 ref.

Date :
2013

Editeur :
Pays édition : Royaume-Uni, London, Sage Publications

Langue :
Anglais