Science Media Centre of Canada
Eva Amsen
Wednesday, 28 January 2009 17:17 UTC
Once in a while I get e-mail about this from the Canadian Science Writer’s Association. Is anyone involved with the Science Media Centre of Canada? It sounds ambitious and interesting.
This is copied straight from their website:
“Science has never been more pervasive in everyday life, yet seldom have so many people felt so unconnected to it. Meanwhile structural changes in the mass media mean there are fewer and fewer specialized medical and science journalists. The burden is falling instead on general assignment reporters, who mostly lack the expertise to present science in an engaging fashion.
Nor is the Internet the answer. Although easily accessible, much online information about science is either too complex, too one-dimensional or too biased to be helpful. Surveys by the U.S. National Science Foundation have shown that only one in five people actively seek out science information; many more will listen or read when it’s presented in the mass media.”
They’re scheduled to open later in 2009.
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Wow, I hadn’t heard about this before, but it sounds really cool. I’ve asked to be added to their mailing list.
I applied for membership of the Canadian Science Writer’s Association a year or so ago, and never heard back… are you a member? Can you get me in?!
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I am a member, it was easy! Maybe just apply again? (Something might have got lost along the way)
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Cath, you should try again. I think there was a leadership transition last year so things fell through the cracks. But in the last couple of months, I was able to join again. Though it did require a few followup emails.
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OK, I’ll try again!
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Cath! You’re anonymous! But also not at all, because that was obviously you…
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I don’t even know how I did that!
(Cath, obviously, but just sayin’, in case it happens again)
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