Session 4: Media training
Tid: Torsdag 18 oktober 2012 kl 15:00 - 18:00
Plats: Seminar room F4136, Lindstedtsvägen 26, entrance floor, behind F3 entering a narrow hallway between F3 and F2
Media training: BBC science reporter Quentin Cooper has said, “Science values detail, precision, the impersonal, the technical, the lasting, facts, numbers and being right. Journalism values brevity, approximation, the personal, the colloquial, the immediate, stories, words and being right now. There are going to be tensions.”
This module aims to give students a clear understanding of the goals, methods and conventions employed in science journalism, and how the journalist’s approach both aligns with and diverges from the scientist’s.
Each student will be the subject of an on-camera journalistic interview intended to challenge his or her ability to stay on-message, formulate succinct points appropriate for the medium, and resist pressure to oversimplify or exaggerate.
Teachers: Joanna Rosé and Kevin Billinghurst