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HESS Opinions: Science in today's media landscape – challenges and lessons from hydrologists and journalists
journal contribution
posted on 2018-07-03, 14:28 authored by Stefanie R. Lutz, Andrea Popp, Tim Van Emmerik, Tom Gleeson, Liz Kalaugher, Karsten Mobius, Tonie Mudde, Brett Walton, Rolf Hut, Hubert Savenije, Louise Slater, Anna Solcerova, Cathelijne Stoof, Matthias ZinkMedia such as television, newspapers and social media play a key role in the communication between scientists and the general public. Communicating your science via the media can be positive and rewarding by providing the inherent joy of sharing your knowledge with a broader audience, promoting science as a fundamental part of culture and society, impacting decision and policy makers, and giving you a greater recognition by institutions, colleagues and funders. However, the interaction between scientists and journalists is not always straightforward. For instance, scientists may not always be able to translate their work into a compelling story, and journalists may sometimes misinterpret scientific output. In this paper, we present insights from hydrologists and journalists discussing the advantages and benefits as well as the potential pitfalls and aftermath of science-media interaction. As we perceive interacting with the media as a rewarding and essential part of our work, we aim to encourage scientists to participate in the diverse and evolving media landscape. With this paper, we call on the scientific community to support scientists who actively contribute to a fruitful science-media relationship.
Funding
This project was in part funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant agreement No. 706428 (C.R.S.). S.R.L. was financially supported by the European Union under the Seventh Framework Programme (Grant agreement no. 603629-ENV2013-6.2.1-Globaqua). A.P. was financially supported by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant agreement No. 641939.
History
School
- Social Sciences
Department
- Geography and Environment
Published in
Hydrology and Earth System SciencesCitation
LUTZ, S.R. ... et al, 2018. Science in today's media landscape – challenges and lessons from hydrologists and journalists. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 22(7), pp. 3589-3599.Publisher
Copernicus Publications © Author(s)Version
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This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/ by/4.0/Acceptance date
2018-06-19Publication date
2018Notes
This is an Open Access Article. It is published by Copernicus under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence (CC BY). Full details of this licence are available at: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ISSN
1027-5606Publisher version
Language
- en