In journalism one must report Who, What, When, Where, Why, and How. Journalists have methods to obtain this information, and I am interested in tailoring these methods to reporting research news.
A typical reader of research news expects high quality background information surrounding the news. This information gives the reader a crash course on scientific aspects of the news topic.
This raises the reporting challenge. The journalist must describe what, why and how in depth, but can not hope to have first hand knowledge in all cases.
The journalist therefore needs a way to capture expert knowledge to include as background. I'm interested in refining methods of capturing expert knowledge.
To a professional journalist, the methods will probably end up looking like "good old-fashioned journalism". But please humour me while I find out how to give researchers a good hearing in the Press.
22 April 2006
Reporting research news
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