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Stempra newsletter - Summer 2009
From the Chair
Katrina Nevin-Ridley welcomes Stempra's new committee and announces some big changes afoot in the organisation. All that, along with the usual running commentary on key events in the diary of London's busiest media mogul.
News:
Upcoming events
New members
Sci Comm news
Eurochat
Features:
The day that CERN was more popular than NASA
James Gillies, CERN’s Head of Communication, spoke at a December Stempra event about the particle physics laboratory’s story of the year. Now he reveals the three ingredients that conspired to focus world attention on Geneva around the time that CERN’s Large Hadron Collider was switched on.
Biding time: a perspective on embargoes
Do science embargoes enhance the quality of science journalism? Or are they just a way of manipulating media coverage and open to abuse? Tara Womersley gives us her thoughts from a university press officer’s perspective.
The importance of good design
What makes a corporate report stand out from the crowd? Good design of course. Lou Dunn tells us about her fascination with fonts, photos and figures and how we can all turn our Annual Reviews into works of art.
From around the world
The 6th World Conference of Science Journalists (WCSJ2009) in July and July broke all previous records by bringing together journalists and other communicators from more than 70 countries – and put on a great show for the rest of the globe.
Event Reports:
The numbers game: all you wanted to know about statistics
It’s not often that statistics is the number one topic. But in March it became ‘what you always wanted to know about but were too afraid to ask’. Thirty Stempra members gathered to hear one professor, and have even asked for session number two.
Crisis communications: when lives are on the line
With a firm grounding in real examples, Simon MacDowall’s discussion in May on crisis communication was as entertaining as it was educational. In the informal pub atmosphere of the Marquis, in Chandos Place in London, he outlined his key messages and the often life or death situations that have informed them over the years.
The new media officers
How can press officers use Twitter and video to communicate science? Lucy Goodchild chaired a discussion on 22 June at the Stempra session at this year’s Science Communication Conference.
Achieving global coverage
A room full of press officers at the World Conference of Science Journalists was expecting to learn more about the international media climate and how to achieve 'global coverage for science'. They got more than they bargained for.
Interview:
Ian Sample, Science Reporter at The Guardian
There has always been a tension between press officers and the media, but isn’t it time we strived for a symbiotic relationship? Alas, Ian Sample from the Guardian tells Laura Nelson why it’s bad news to need a press officer and that he’d rather call the mobile number of a chief executive every time.
This newsletter is edited by Laura Nelson, with help from Simon Levey
and Alex Waddington. For feedback, comments or suggestions of topics to
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