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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 May 2013
When I train young U.S. scientists in communication, I begin by laying out some sobering facts about the state of science coverage in the American media today. It's a marvel most don't just give up right there.
Science journalism, as a press specialty in the U.S., has been decimated by technologically and economically impelled changes in the media industry. Perhaps most notably, and as documented by Cristine Russell of the Harvard Kennedy School, the number of specialized U.S. newspaper science sections has shrunken by more than two-thirds over the past two decades – from 95 in 1989 to 31 in 2009 [1]. This dismaying saga was capped in 2009 when the Boston Globe, located in a city that is a Mecca of the biotech industry, cut its Monday Health/Science section.
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