Making the Complex Understandable
The rapidly changing scientific, medical and technical landscape requires the skills of a special type of journalist who can both understand and explain these changes to the general population. Science journalists take complicated concepts, interpret them, and communicate them in a manner that is more easily understood by those of us who do not have a technical or science background. In this time of deadly pandemics, climate change, and species extinction, science journalism plays a vital role in bringing important stories to the attention of the general public. And even though the very existence of scientific fact has become a weapon in some of the more contentious social, political, and environmental debates of the day, science journalists are professionals committed to providing essential information in an unbiased manner.
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