Journalists

As I have said in previous editions the information provided in this volume is a distillation of the work of very many scientists, technologists, engineers, economists and journalists without which this book could not have existed. 

Micro reactors have attracted the attention of the press and journals (Figure 1.34). This echo reflects the perception of how the technology is seen by journalists and experts in the field, thereby influencing the opinion of the interested society. It is worth - not only from a marketing perspective - having a closer look at this and attempting to draw some conclusions concerning one s own future developments. 

SHARON Bertsch McGrayne is a science writer and award-winning journalist. She has been a reporter for Scripps-Howard, Crain s, Gannett, and other newspapers covering education, politics, and health issues. She is a former science editor and writer for Encyclopaedia Britannica and the author of several books, including Nobel Prize Women in Science. 

Dorothy Nelkin They clearly do, and I ve made a kind of a personal policy to be receptive and to talk to journalists, but not necessarily to give them soundbites but to elucidate the background issues. I m not very good at soundbites. 

Finally, an observation on Wachtershauser made by R. Shapiro in his book Planetary Dreams, he recounts Leslie Orgel s judgement on Wachtershauser s ideas, ... that he1 considered the work to be the most important finding in the last century (Shapiro, 1999). The Science journalist M. Hagmann (Zurich, Switzerland) has provided a comprehensive profile of Wachtershauser (Hagmann, 2002). 

Of course, alchemy dictates the response to Holsten s discovery What chiefly impressed the journalists of 1933 was the production of gold from bismuth and the realisation albeit upon unprofitable lines of the alchemist s dreams (194). But by 1953, Holsten and scientists and engineers develop... 

In cities throughout the country, there is a new direction in local campaign coverage. Frequendy in local elections, journalists are not giving voters enough information to understand the issues and evaluate the candidates. The local news media devotes too much time to scandal and not enough time to policy. 

The need to provide accurate, timely, transparent and credible information so that decision-makers at least have a factual basis from which to operate. Without a continuing commitment from industry to far greater transparency -especially in matters that are perceived as impinging on public or environmental health - our industry will be unsustainable. Trust me - I m a businessman works about as well as Trust me - I m a politician . Even Trust me - I m a journalist works better ... 

GM s Hy-wire was named Car of the Future by the Belgian Association of Professional Auto Journalists. The honor is awarded to the vehicle considered the most innovative, the most spectacular, the most... 

In the postwar years a spirit of "chemical boosterism," to use a term coined in a recent historical study, emerged in the United States. A group of chemists, chemical journalists and science popularizers acted as propagandists for the chemical profession and industry. Their message, delivered with conviction to the public through a variety of popular publications, was that chemistry was vital to the national defense and to economic progress. One of the more active of these chemical boosters was Charles Holmes Herty, and his efforts to establish a national institute for drug research must be viewed within this context (11). 

Cagliostro was wise to be wary Theveneau de Morande was not just any journalist. He was Europe s most dangerous pen for hire. No modern tabloid writer could surpass him for savagery. French contemporaries called him le Rousseau de ruisseau, the gutter Rousseau, and often worse. 

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