A researcher reflects on her coverage

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Zhana Vrangalova, a Cornell PhD student, has mixed feelings about her first major media ride for a study on sexual behaviors, and she writes about them on her blog, from published study to press release to coverage. Although she calls the experience "much more positive than negative" she warns, "Be very very careful what you say to journalists and how you say it, because they can and will misunderstand, misinterpret, and sensationalize everything and anything you say."

June 25, 2013

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