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Plenary Sessions

A drought or a flood? Climate change reporting around the world
Science reporting: Regional and cultural differences
The future of science journalism: New media, new messages
Reporting science in countries with repressive regimes
Hope or hype? Is it ever justified to exaggerate science?
Around the world in 80 minutes: Highlights from award winning and agenda setting science TV
Investigative science reporting: Does it exist?
Bad science journalism
Defining a credible expert
Covering a disaster: From Sichuan to Sri Lanka
Podcasts: Current fad or here to stay?
Does Science Need to be Highbrow?
Journalistic practice and genetics
Politics, policy and the media: Climate change
Embargoes in science reporting: Friend or foe?
The UK media battle for Human Animal Embryos
Four science journalists who changed the world
Advocacy science journalism
Churnalism: Have science PR and science journalism become too close for comfort?
Engineering: The unwritten story?
Science magazines: Is there a future?
Does the media influence science policy? GM as a case study
Reporting on cancer: Media influence, myths, stigma, drug rationing
The expanding role of journalists: New ways of communicating with your audience
Islamic world science
Criticising science: Are journalists prepared to scrutinise and interrogate the big science questions or are most science journalists cheerleaders for science?
Nutrition and diet: Is food really so risky?
Science documentaries: Is there a future?

Plus sessions on aspects of reporting and biodiversity, neglected diseases, ethics, and science fiction.