Get started with these media guides, designed specifically for scientists and engineers.
- BBSRC Guide to the media [1]
- The Wellcome Trust Guide to working with the media [2]
- Sense about Science's media guide [3]
- The Science Media Centre have a set of Media guides and tip sheets [4]for scientists
- ESRC have a Working with the media guide [5]
- NERC's Engaging the public [6]guide
- The Guardian science writing tips series [7] (part of the Wellcome Trust science writing prize 2013)
What are journalists looking for from researchers?
Learn to press for success , Matt Rooney [8], Times Higher Education, August 2008. (Article by one of our very own Media Fellows)
Nine ways scientists can help improve science journalism [9] , Guardian, March 2012
Nine ways scientists demonstrate they don't understand journalism [10] Guardian, January 2012
Why trust a reporter? What science writers are looking for and why it behooves you to answer their calls [11] The Scientist, Sep 2010
Advice for future science journalists
Science Writers’ Awards [12] is a blog for fledgling science writers who want to find out a little more about what they’re getting themselves into.
New Scientist's guide for freelancers [13]
'On the Origin of Science Writers' - Discover Magazine
[14]Learn how some of the best known science journalists got their big break
A manifesto for the simple scribe - my 25 commandments for journalists [15] (Tim Radford, Guardian.co.uk, Jan 2011)
University of Kent's guide to becoming a science writer
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Science AAAS guide to science writing [17]
More media resources
Get the media to notice you [18] |Media contacts and networking [19] | Media training [20] | Latest in science journalism [21]