Elmar Veerman proposes:
[What if] all those universities and institutions gave a small part of their communications budget to a fund that would pass it on to independent, skilled science journalists?
Wouldn’t that be a good idea?
Here’s the complete passage from his post:
How much do universities, research foundations, medical centers and other producers of scientific results spend on science communication, all aimed at a small and diminishing group of science journalists? It seems harder and harder for them to get our attention. Surely they see the problem here too? Journalists are the bottleneck in the science communication chain, simply because there are so few of them. Or perhaps there are too many communicators.
Wouldn’t it be better if all those universities and institutions gave a small part of their communications budget to a fund that would pass it on to independent, skilled science journalists? That way, their press officers would have more people to sell their news to. And the public would get more science news, which would be more reliable too. What do you think?
What do you think? What would it take to start the intiative for such a fund? Anyone willing helping to realize such a project?
Please post your comments.
