InSciOut recently participated in a debate at the Royal
Institution, aimed at what scientists could do to improve
science news reporting. About 150-200 people attended from
science (40%), journalism and press relations backgrounds as
well as interested members of the general public. The debate
concerned how scientists and journalists could improve science
reporting by changing their own behaviour (see an InSciOut blog
and companion piece in the Guardian online). The speakers were
Chris Chambers, Fellow at Cardiff University and member of
InSciOut (see here for his account of the debate) Dr Ananyo
Bhattacharya, Editor Nature Online (see his views as well as
Nature.com write-up of twitter feeds of the debate. Ed Yong
(science writer and blogger) as well as Fona Fox, Chief
Executive of the Science Media Centre provided commentary on
presentations. Alice Bell chaired the event and posted a
commentary The debate raised several issues that will be
addressed in upcoming research and in a future debate to be held
at