Session reviews

These are reviews written by voluntary delegates that will help you get a glimpse of the buzz around the 6th World Conference of Science Writers. Click on any title to read the full review. Then leave your comment: do you agree with this review? Did you hear a different message? We'd love you to discuss it with you!

Food Security and Food Sustainability
2009-07-01 06:40

Attendees at this workshop had the chance to listen to ten specialists on diverse areas related to food security issues. The presentations covered a great variety of topics, ranging from hunger to the affect of climate change on food production, including nutrition, crop diseases, infectious diseases in the food chain and genetics.

Changements climatiques
2009-07-01 06:29

Un atelier sur ce phénomène s’est déroulé hier dans le cadre de la 6ème conférence des journalistes scientifiques. Les animateurs ont discuté des techniques et des difficultés du journalisme de ce phénomène.
 

Reporting About Climate Change
2009-07-01 06:26

When it comes to climate change journalism, keeping both sides in proper balance is difficult--but never impossible. That was a key outcome of the workshop ‘Reporting on Climate Change’, held on Monday 29 June at the Geographical Society in London as part of the 6th World Conference of Science Journalists.

New Media Tools
2009-06-30 11:10

I'm only 26 but I felt like a real dinosaur when Rory Cellen-Jones emptied his briefcase onto the table and showed us the equipment he carries around with him.

Along with his Apple Mac laptop and mobile broadband dongle, the BBC’s technology correspondent also has a mini audio recorder and microphone, a digital pen and two mobiles phones, having ditched a Nokia N95 in favour of “just” an iPhone and Blackberry.

“Put a human face to climate change”
2009-06-30 10:54

On a hot day in London, journalists from around 20 countries gathered on Monday 29th June at the Royal Geographic Society to attend the workshop ‘reporting about climate change’. Among the attendees were print and broadcast reporters and researchers on science communication. The session was supported by UNESCO-HQ Paris and the UK Commission for UNESCO.
Many themes were discussed during the day, including the most recent science in the field of climate change and the state of international negotiations in the run up to the UN meeting in Copenhagen.

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