A few days ago we woke up to the news that the New York Times is eliminating their environment desk. Predictably, the immediate reaction of many was “oh, noooo!”. After all, whenever we hear such news, about a science or health or environmental desk being eliminated at a media organization, this means the reporters and [...]

If you are a really regular, diligent reader of this blog, you may remember back in September when I announced a panel I have organized for the next year’s WCSJ2013. The eighth World Conference of Science Journalists, organized by World Federation of Science Journalists will be held in Helsinki, Finland on June 24-28th, 2013, and [...]

If you read my old and new posts about the media, science journalism, etc., you know I come down strongly on the side of specialists and against generalists. But it is a caricature, a simplification I have to use to make my posts clearer, and to cut my posts down to a semi-manageable length Yes, [...]

Nate Silver is now a meme (also source of the image on the left). I usually pepper my posts with links, but today I feel lazy, so I listed a bunch of links at the bottom – hours of fascinating reading you can have after you read my post! Who is Nate Silver? Nate Silver [...]

It seems we like dichotomies when discussing changes in the media. We pick two words, and then fight over them. I have no intention to revisit the stale old debate about journalists vs. bloggers, as it was silly to begin with, and was resolved back in 2005, oh wait, in 2008, or was it in [...]

Finland, Finland, Finland! Every now and then, a meeting happens somewhere in the world, and I am not there but watching the tweets with the official hashtag makes me thoroughly jealous I am not. It just seems like there is interesting stuff going on, important information exchanged, and everyone is having great fun. I know, [...]