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Why the Media Can’t Tell Their Asteroid from Their Ebola

MIP

03/10/2019, 7:00 pm - TO 03/10/2019 - 8:00 pm

Organizer: Alumni Advancement

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The School of Interdisciplinary Science in partnership with the McMaster Alumni Association is pleased to offer a FREE public lecture as part of Science Stories: A Science Communication Speaker Series. This fall McMaster welcomes guest speaker Jim Handman, Executive Director of the Science Media Centre of Canada.

Jim Handman will examine the top 10 reasons general assignment reporters who cover science stories often get the science wrong. As more and more mainstream media cut back, downsize, and (in many cases) fold up completely, among the first people to be let go, bought out and retired are the specialized beat reporters, especially the science writers. That leaves the general assignment reporters to cover the science stories that are dominating our news these days: climate change, alternative energy, drought, fracking, forest fires, Ebola, GMO labeling, etc.

For more information and to register please visit http://alumni.mcmaster.ca/sciencestories4 or contact Christine Kennedy at ckenned@mcmaster.ca

Thursday, October 3, 2019
6:30 pm – doors open & light refreshments
7:00 pm – lecture
McMaster Innovation Park
Room 1CD
175 Longwood Road South
Hamilton, ON