[Editors] more science comm. resources

[Elizabeth Thomson]

A few more resources on communicating science to a broad audience....

Elizabeth

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>Here are a couple of others:
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><http://www.news.ucdavis.edu/services/default.lasso>, especially "why
>work with the news media" and "when a reporter calls."
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><http://www.nist.gov/public_affairs/bestpractices/practices.html>,
>proceedings of a 2002 conference on the best practices for
>communicating science to the public.
>
>The national science foundation also has a regular survey of the
>interest and knowledge of the U.S. public in science-related issues
>that is quite enlightening.
>
><http://www.freedomforum.org/templates/document.asp?documentID=13649>
>Worlds Apart report which might have certain sections that many
>science writers do not agree with (I think there is an old article in
>ScienceWriters analysing the pros and cons of this report).
>

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