BRIDGING SCIENCE & SOCIETIES
OCTOBER 26-30, 2017Featured Session
Make ‘em Sizzle: Turn Up the Heat on Slow Environmental Stories
29 October 2017
2:00 pm – 3:15 pm
Covering the slow-burn, unsexy stories of long-term environmental crises can be a greater challenge than ever for science journalists working in a 24/7 news cycle. Too often coverage bends inexorably to the drama of more gripping immediate news events, from the latest election to the devastation from natural disasters. Meanwhile, the smoke from biomass cookstoves... Read More
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Wendy Zukerman
Host, Science Vs (podcast)Kirsi Lorentz
Assistant professor, The Cyprus InstituteAndrew Holtz
Health and medicine journalist and writerRebecca Lawrence
Managing director, F1000 GroupSubhra Priyadarshini
Editor, Nature IndiaRonald Green
Professor emeritus, religion and ethics, Dartmouth CollegeBianca Nogrady
Freelance science journalist and authorIzabela Moi
Co-founder and executive director, Agência Mural de Jornalismo das Periferias, Folha de São PauloGunn Britt Retter
Head, arctic and environment unit, Saami CouncilJosué Rivas
Photographer, cinematographer, and film directorDalia Abdel Salam
Editor in chief, For Science magazineRobin Marantz Henig
Freelance journalist & immediate past president, National Association of Science Writers
