- Meet colleagues from Africa, Asia, Europe and the Americas and build your network of contacts so you can report effectively on science and science issues in the 21st Century.
- Discuss the issues faced by science journalists around the world.
- Discover a land rich in stories - with strange flora and fauna, a unique view of the sky, a different climate and a geological history of its own.
Highlights include:
- science: climate change, emerging diseases, quantum computing, polar science, and the future of nuclear energy.
- issues: fraud, balance, biasing of information and the challenges of reporting from within and outside emerging economies.
- workshops: reporting on clinical trials, dealing with risk, information management in a crisis, when to trust peer review, editing and creating journalism associations.
...and much more.
Participants include science editors from the Economist, Financial Times, Asahi Shimbun, the editors-in-chief of Nature and of Scientific American, senior reporters from BBC TV, radio and World Service, and some 50 journalists from developing and emerging countries.
More information: www.scienceinmelbourne2007.org, Niall Byrne - [email protected] or the conference managers on +61 3 9645 6311 or [email protected]
The 5th World Conference of Science Journalists is an initiative of the World Federation of Science Journalists and the Australian Science Communicators.
