Media advice

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
[16]
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]

 

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