Felicity Mellor is Director of Science Communication Unit at Imperial College London, UK, where she oversees the Unit's long-running masters programmes in science communication. Her research focuses on science journalism and the ideological dimensions of media discourse about science. Her publications include two co-edited books: The Silences of Science and Science and its Publics.

List of Contributors

Introduction: Beating the bounds of science journalism

Felicity Mellor

Part 1:

1. "Making democracy safe": The development of US science journalism in the 1920s

Susan E. Swanberg and Felicity Mellor

2. The expanding role of science journalism: BBC radio in post-war Britain

Jared Robert Keller

3. Constructing identity, protecting independence: Science journalists' associations

Jane Gregory

Part 2:

4. Copy and paste: Churnalism in science journalism

Lars Guenther, Justin T. Schröder and Anna Tratter

5.

Irene Broer

6. The over-reliance on foreign science news in developing countries: Causes, consequences and solutions

An Nguyen and Minh Tran

7.

Alexandra Borissova Saleh

Part 3:

8. Partial to being impartial? Debates about balance in science journalism

Felicity Mellor

9. Making science trend: the style of popular science magazines

10. Ethical compromise in narrative science journalism: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

Lauren Kilian

Conclusion: A conversation with the future

Felicity Mellor

Index