Varieties of Science Journalism
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At some point in your career, you will have to decide just what kind of science journalism to engage in. You might think I mean, by this, what kind of job you want. Yes, thats important, too, but what well mostly be exploring in this lecture is what position you want to take relative to science. Do you want to be a science booster? A science interpreter? A science critic? Ideally, that important decision will be entirely up to your own preferences. Life, though, will take you on a path with unexpected twists and turns so its likely that youll engage in many different types of journalism over the course of your career, not least because the professional landscape itself is constantly shifting.
