Susannah Elliott CEO of the Australia Science Media Centre talks to Radio National – Media Report about the lack of science journalists.
Australian journalism isn’t covering science based stories very well. And these include disease, obesity, climate change, natural disasters and the Murray-Darling. But increasingly science is being ghettoised into the sensational or the quirky, as fewer genuine specialists remain in journalism and understaffed newsrooms struggle to keep up.
http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/mediareport/the-problem-with-science-reporting/4518686