Understanding Why Science Research Is Translated into News: A Survey for Journalists, Bloggers – Part II

In August, 2013, I started conducting a wide online survey of journalists and bloggers to better understand why and how science research is translated into news. An earlier SciAm guest blog post introduced that survey.

Nearly 1,000 science journalists and bloggers participated in Part I of the survey last year. Today, I am introducing Part II of this survey – a follow-up to answer more questions and confirm some intriguing results from Part I. (But you needn’t have participated in Part I to participate in Part II now!)

If you are a journalist, blogger, freelance writer, magazine writer, TV producer, radio announcer, podcast producer, or anything in between, I’m asking you to participate in this online survey. By participating in this survey, which only takes 15 minutes to complete, journalists, bloggers and other communicators can help me understand when and why science makes its way from research publication to news story.

Once you’ve completed this survey, you will also have the chance to read an abstract and summary of the results from Part I, which have now been submitted for publication. I will also hopefully be blogging about the results of Part I and Part II soon at SciAm!

To participate, simply follow the link below or copy and paste the URL into a new browser window:

https://lsucommunications.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_czOl353cN333tQN

This survey will hopefully be translated itself into a peer-reviewed research paper that will help other communication scholars understand the why’s of science news story selection. But in order to make that happen, I need your help! Please spread the word about this survey, link to it on Facebook and Twitter, and send it to your journalism colleagues.

Thank you for your participation!

For the full post, visit Scientific American Guest Blog.