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Scientists and journalists need different things from science: the follow-up

Scientists and journalists need different things from science: the follow-up

Last week’s Royal Institution debate on science reporting in the media has stirred up a whole range of discussions online, from the role of science media centres to the hottest question of the night: whether science journalists should be reading the primary literature behind their story. The discussion raged on Twitter during the debate and afterwards, with one side arguing that no journalist could ever understand all the papers they need to cover, even in a narrow field of reporting, with the other claiming that it is a basic part of the job, and to fail is, in the words of Ed Yong, malpractice.  Read more