On the 20th anniversary of the research news hub, Nick Stockton writes about what it was like before EurekAlert brought science news online: "Journalists weren’t just acquiring mountains of paper spam. They had to hustle for access to studies. Reporters at regional outlets, with less of a travel budget, were at a disadvantage to large national papers and magazines that could send staff to meetings to develop relationships with individual scientists or university PIOs."
May 17, 2016