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On science blogs this week: Prescribe

The World Conference of Science Journalists meets, greets, and tweets. Free E. coli papers. Pharma STEPS toward getting docs to prescribe more drugs. Drug effects in the elderly. New blogs from Kaiser Health News, JAMA, and Laura Newman.

On science blogs this week: Shiga, Shiga

It's E. coli all the way down--with an impressive moral dimension.

Energetic AAAS panel highlights how science and journalism differ

An AAAS media/science panel delves into the proper role of media in convincing the public about climate change and explores differing views on what precisely makes news, helping illustrate scientists’ and media’s sometimes vast cultural differences. From the Spring 2011 ScienceWriters,

On science blogs this week: Ooops!

Dethroning microbes. Farewell, arsenic bug. So long, XMRV.

On science blogs this week: Raptures

Rescheduled Rapture. Raptures for the feisty, spunky, plucky little Mars Spirit Rover. Should science writers be in the debunking business? Happy Birthday, Last Word on Nothing. Once more, arsenic bugging.

Time for change in science journalism?

Competition with Internet blogs could stir science journalists in traditional media to correct systemic faults in science reporting, says John Rennie. An excerpt from the Spring 2011 issue of ScienceWriters.

Authorship has rewards beyond royalties

Dennis Meredith writes that Explaining Research and Working with Public Information Officers are making him more money through workshops and speaking engagements than from sales. Meredith, who created the Marketing and publishing resource on the ScienceWriters web site, offers advice on promotion and self-publishing in the Spring 2011 issue of ScienceWriters magazine, free to NASW members.

On science blogs this week: bin Laden

The death of Osama bin Laden: genomics, neuroscience, health and medicine, anthropology, media matters.

From Facebook to Twitter to Tumblr

What's Tumblr? It's the latest social media must-have, according to this post from Jojo Malig at the Poynter Institute. More than 160 news media organizations are using the image-heavy blogging platform. So are individual journalists. But what is it good for, and how do you get started using it? This “Tumblr for journalists” slideshow from Matthew Keys has plenty of quick tips.

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