David Shiffman, who studies shark conservation, explains how he decides whether to talk to reporters: "If I don’t know you and you ask me to do an interview, I will look up some examples of your writing to see if you do a good job covering scientific or environmental issues. If you take things out of context or present issues unfairly, I won’t agree to an interview. If I can’t find any evidence that you’ve written about this stuff at all, that’s a huge red flag for me."
January 11, 2016
