Tag Archives: newsroom

On The Caravan’s new profile of The Hindu

Posted on December 9, 2021 by

On December 1, The Caravan published a 50-page report entitled ‘Paper Priests: The battle for the soul of The Hindu’. The report – actually, as a friend put it, a big profile – has many good parts and many others, … Continue reading →

Posted in Analysis, Culture | Tagged casteism, Malini Parthasarathy, newsroom, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Siddharth Varadarajan, The Caravan, The Hindu | Comments Off

Clarity and soundness

Posted on June 27, 2020 by

I feel a lot of non-science editors just switch off when they read science stuff. A friend told me this earlier today, during yet another conversation about how many of the editorial issues that assail science and health journalism have … Continue reading →

Posted in Scicomm | Tagged clarity of thought, coronavirus pandemic, COVID-19, editing, editorial decisions, health journalism, newsroom, science communication, science journalism, sound argument | Comments Off

The circumstances in which scientists are science journos

Posted on November 30, 2019 by

On September 6, 2019, two researchers from Israel uploaded a preprint to the bioRxiv preprint server entitled ‘Can scientists fill the science journalism void? Online public engagement with two science stories authored by scientists’. Two news sites invited scientists to … Continue reading →

Posted in Op-eds, Scicomm | Tagged environmental journalism, free labour, Jamie Farnes, labour, newsroom, science communication, science journalism, science writing, scientists, The Conversation | Comments Off

Confused thoughts on embargoes

Posted on October 16, 2017 by

Seventy! That’s how many observatories around the world turned their antennae to study the neutron-star collision that LIGO first detected. So I don’t know why the LIGO Collaboration, and Nature, bothered to embargo the announcement and, more importantly, the scientific … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged embargoes, Facebook, Google, Ingelfinger rule, news cycle, newsroom, peer review, science journalism, science reporting, scientific journals | Comments Off

Hacking newsroom productivity

Posted on May 1, 2017 by

Developers should consider collaborative tools for journalists that also make remote-working more efficient and less prone to communication gaps. Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged brainstorming, collaboration, editors, journalism, natural language, newsroom, remote workplace, reporters, syntax, virtual communication, work from home | Comments Off