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22/05/20

Science journalism needed now, more than ever

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Journalists in mainstream media are not always trained to cover science issues. Copyright:Fernando Medina Fernández / Cubahora

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  • Coronavirus emergency requires accurate and reliable information
  • But, many media outlets do not have enough journalists trained in science
  • Science journalists ‘battling mainstream media, fake news and uncertainty’

By:Martín De Ambrosio

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[BUENOS AIRES] The emergence of the novel coronavirus pandemic suddenly made science and health journalists important in newsrooms.

Virtually overnight, COVID-19 showed scientists, officials, authorities and even the media themselves that good interlocutors are key tocommunicating广泛受众的复杂问题。

“对科学感兴趣的记者的数量至少增加了十倍，这导致媒体对与科学相关的科学故事的重点越来越重，”生态研究所的研究人员罗德里戈·麦德林（Rodrigo Medellin）在墨西哥国家自治大学SciDev.Net.

麦德林相信潘德米c has had a positive impact on the media and the way they cover science stories and choose their sources.

他补充说：“我唯一希望这不是我们在墨西哥说的那样，这不是'背包火'：一种巨大的火焰，持续很短的时间，很快就会出去。”

“作为专业记者，我们必须获得合法性。公众必须知道我们的信息是正确的 - 我们必须是严格的，不一定是第一个（发表故事），”

Carlos Francisco Fernández, health journalist, El Tiempo

Aleida Rueda, president of the Mexican Network of Science Journalists (RedMPC in Spanish) and aSciDev.Netcontributor, says the pandemic has revealed that Latin American countries lack goodjournalism回答基本问题 - 我们应该戴口罩吗？- 以及更难的人 - 为什么有些人有症状而另一些人则没有症状？

她说：“在这种情况下，科学新闻界比以往任何时候都需要更多，但我不确定它比以前更具价值。”

"The mainstream media continue to produce daily news based on opinions, with political flags, without self-criticism, as always. The hope, I think, is that people will find specialised journalism so necessary and fundamental that they will demand it more and more.”

同时，她认为主流媒体提供的信息是另一种很大的健康风险：大量的假治疗学，虚假期望的创造，“有罪”人的发现以及对复杂问题的“绝对”答案。

This issue was one of the themes of the firstVirtual Forum of Latin American Science Journalism，5月6日至15日为1400多名记者和沟通者举行。

"As specialised journalists, we must gain legitimacy,” Carlos Francisco Fernández, a health journalist at the Colombian dailyEl Tiempo, said at the forum.

“公众必须知道我们的信息是正确的 - 我们必须是严格的，不一定是第一个（发表故事）。”

"We should take advantage of this situation to show how important we are," Marcelo Leite, a senior journalist at Brazilian newspaperFolha de S.Paulo, told the forum.

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Today, the science journalist has to fight not only against ‘fake news’, but also against the unpredictable dynamics of the new pandemic.

阿根廷科学新闻社主席诺拉·巴尔（NoraBär）告诉论坛：“我们必须特别谨慎，并试图解释这有多确定。”

This is a huge challenge for a sometimes-neglected journalism specialisation.

科学新闻业需要进行持续的培训和阅读，尤其是在不确定的背景下，以及实际上有成千上万的“新闻价值”科学研究。

Quite a challenge.

这个馅饼ce was produced by SciDev.Net’s Latin America & Caribbean desk.