Media guides 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

• BBC Academy College of Journalism [12] provides practical advice in key areas such as how to write, report, interview, present, research stories, and get the most from social media.
• Science Writers’ Awards [13] 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 [14] 
• 'On the Origin of Science Writers' - Discover Magazine [15]Learn how some of the best known science journalists got their big break
• A manifesto for the simple scribe - my 25 commandments for journalists [16] (Tim Radford, Guardian.co.uk, Jan 2011)
• University of Kent's guide to becoming a science writer [17]
• Science AAAS guide to science writing [18]

More media resources

Get the media to notice you [19] |Media contacts and networking [20] | Media training [21] | Latest in science journalism [22]