Contributors
Introduction: Beating the bounds of science journalism
Felicity Mellor
Part 1: Establishing a Beat
1. “Making democracy safe”: The development of US science journalism in the 1920s
Susan E. Swanberg and Felicity Mellor
2. The expanding role of science journalism: BBC radio in post-war Britain
Jared Robert Keller
3. Constructing identity, protecting independence: Science journalists’ associations
Jane Gregory
Part 2: Journalist-Source Relations
4. Copy and paste: Churnalism in science journalism
Lars Guenther, Justin T. Schröder and Anna Tratter
5. Science Media Centres: Walking a line between science, PR and journalism
Irene Broer
6. The over-reliance on foreign science news in developing countries: Causes, consequences and solutions
An Nguyen and Minh Tran
7. “The death of experts”: Sourcing science journalism in a state-controlled media environment
Alexandra Borissova Saleh
Part 3: The Journalistic Voice
8. Partial to being impartial? Debates about balance in science journalism
Felicity Mellor
9. Making science trend: the style of popular science magazines
Katarzyna Molek-Kozakowska
10. Ethical compromise in narrative science journalism: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Lauren Kilian
Conclusion: A conversation with the future
Felicity Mellor
Index
Biography
Felicity Mellor is Director of Science Communication Unit at Imperial College London, UK, where she oversees the Unit’s long-running masters programmes in science communication. Her research focuses on science journalism and the ideological dimensions of media discourse about science. Her publications include two co-edited books: The Silences of Science and Science and its Publics.
