Selling Science: Writing About Research for Everybody Else, or How to Use The New York Times as Your Journalism School

Professional Science Master's Program in Applied Science and Business Presents a Special Lecture

Selling Science: Writing About Research for Everybody Else, or How to Use The New York Times as Your Journalism School

Ford Burkhart
Former Foreign News Editor
The New York Times
Wednesday, March 26, 2008
5:15-6:30pm
Marley Building 230

What do scientists and others need to know when they become writers of the news and features in the press, and not just consumers? This talk will analyze The New York Times, and how it puts science and other complex news into the world's daily agenda for public discussion. With many examples, the talk will cover how technical science can be turned into compelling and enjoyable journalism. It will include the many ways that a science student can contribute to the media, from the lab and beyond, in corporate or nonprofit work. The media are assets for any business and for a society itself, but more important they are the way a society engages in elevated discourse about its most serious topics.

Questions? Contact Alaina Levine at Alaina@u.arizona.edu or 621-3374.