Contributors
Martha Mendoza, Associated Press. Mendoza is a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner who has taught investigative reporting in the University of California Science Communications master’s program for more than a decade.
Title: Communicating Science with Journalists
Aleszu Bajak, Senior data reporter, USA Today. Aleszu Bajak is a science and data journalist, former Knight Science Journalism Fellow at M.I.T. and Science Friday radio producer who has been a freelance reporter in Latin America and once upon a time worked in the gene therapy department at Weill Cornell. His work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe magazine, M.I.T. Technology Review, OjoPúblico, The Huffington Post, Esquire, Nature, Science, and Guernica. He founded and edited Storybench, a publication hosted by Northeastern’s School of Journalism that explores the future of digital storytelling and data journalism. He also served as innovation lead at the Co-Laboratory for Data Impact within Northeastern while teaching courses in journalism, coding and data visualization.
Title: Communicating Science with Journalists
Aleszu Bajak, Senior data reporter, USA Today. Aleszu Bajak is a science and data journalist, former Knight Science Journalism Fellow at M.I.T. and Science Friday radio producer who has been a freelance reporter in Latin America and once upon a time worked in the gene therapy department at Weill Cornell. His work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe magazine, M.I.T. Technology Review, OjoPúblico, The Huffington Post, Esquire, Nature, Science, and Guernica. He founded and edited Storybench, a publication hosted by Northeastern’s School of Journalism that explores the future of digital storytelling and data journalism. He also served as innovation lead at the Co-Laboratory for Data Impact within Northeastern while teaching courses in journalism, coding and data visualization.
Institution/ Affiliation
Martha Mendoza, Associated Press.
Aleszu Bajak, Senior data reporter, USA Today.
Aleszu Bajak, Senior data reporter, USA Today.
Presentation Details (date, conference, etc.)
July 15, 2021, IMAG/MSM WG on Multiscale Modeling and Viral Pandemics
- Martha Mendoza, Associated Press. Mendoza is a two time Pulitzer Prize winner who has taught investigative reporting in the University of California Science Communications master’s program for more than a decade.
Title: Communicating Science with Journalists
Abstract: Scientists and journalists have different goals, but there’s overlap. Both want to engage, both want to inform. Journalist Martha Mendoza will share the behind-the-headlines work that reporters go through to find and produce news stories, and talk about some ways scientists can communicate with journalists about what they’re doing and why the public should know. YouTube and Slides. - Aleszu Bajak, Senior data reporter, USA Today. Aleszu Bajak is a science and data journalist, former Knight Science Journalism Fellow at M.I.T. and Science Friday radio producer who has been a freelance reporter in Latin America and once upon a time worked in the gene therapy department at Weill Cornell. His work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe magazine, M.I.T. Technology Review, OjoPúblico, The Huffington Post, Esquire, Nature, Science, and Guernica. He founded and edited Storybench, a publication hosted by Northeastern’s School of Journalism that explores the future of digital storytelling and data journalism. He also served as innovation lead at the Co-Laboratory for Data Impact within Northeastern while teaching courses in journalism, coding and data visualization.
Abstract: 1) How do we better communicate models and with models, drawing on my work collaborating with researchers and building my own. 2) Tips for crafting strong, enticing op-eds. 3) Discussion of media’s successes and failings and how researchers can facilitate stories and steer coverage in new directions. YouTube and Slides.