The Science and the Media expert group have released Science and the Media: Securing the Future.
This report outlines a number of actions and recommendations which, taken together, will:
- support the accurate reporting of science through a range of new training initiatives for journalists, press officers and scientists
- foster an environment within which engaging science programmes can be made, and reach the widest possible audience
- begin to address the serious threat to the quality and independence of science reporting posed by the wider crisis in journalism. The group issued a call for all who care about the quality of science reporting to act now safeguard improvements made in recent years
- promote openness and transparency across science, facilitating public engagement with, and debate of, scientific issues